{"id":2115,"date":"2007-02-08T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T04:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2007-02-08T04:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T04:46:00","slug":"2115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>VERTICAL EXPERTS THINKING HORIZONTALLY<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/074253958X.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64209987_.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I just saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0742539598?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=theduckofmine-20&amp;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0742539598\">this book <\/a>for the first time today while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/2007\/02\/review-of-harry-potter-and.html\"><strong>Dr. Nexon&#8217;s<\/strong> post <\/a>at <a href=\"http:\/\/duckofminerva.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Duck of Minerva<\/strong> <\/a>on the recent review in <strong><em>International Affairs<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nexon and Neumann have a brilliant touchstone concept for Generation Y here. Even the students who dislike reading have read <strong><em>Harry Potter<\/em><\/strong>. A quick poll of my own students revealed a number just shy of 100% have read at least one book in the series and a slight majority have read them all. A large majority have watched every Harry Potter movie.  They are saturated in all things Potter the way an earlier generation of baby boomers drank deeply of <strong><em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERTICAL EXPERTS THINKING HORIZONTALLY I just saw this book for the first time today while reading Dr. Nexon&#8217;s post at The Duck of Minerva on the recent review in International Affairs. Nexon and Neumann have a brilliant touchstone concept for Generation Y here. Even the students who dislike reading have read Harry Potter. A quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,76,25,74,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duck-of-minerva","category-harry-potter","category-horizontal-thinking","category-ir","category-nexon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}