{"id":170,"date":"2012-01-18T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-01-18T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:00:56","slug":"wookiee-cookies-and-other-galactic-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wookiee-cookies-and-other-galactic-recipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Wookiee Cookies and other Galactic Recipes."},"content":{"rendered":"

After a recent trip to Disney World, I have been contemplating purchasing one of the Star Wars cookbooks, but have been too lazy to look online for a copy. Disney World has every Star Wars product imaginable. This assignment has given me a reason to get my online shopping on and actually pay attention to the steps I must go through to retrieve such a literary gem. Both Amazon and ThinkGeek have at least one of the two books. I found Amazon easier because the search bar has a drop down menu where I conveniently selected books and typed in the keywords “star wars cookbook.” Amazon graced my eyes with not only the Wookiee Cookies and other Galactic Recipes<\/em>, but also the second book, Darth Malt and More Galactic Recipes. <\/em>I found that the home page was not overwhelming with Amazon pushing products. Also there are multiple ways to easily find what the user wants with both a search bar on the top and a menu on the side with different departments or categories of items that could be purchased on the website. I did not have to “satisfice” because I was presented with multiple viable options that got me to where I hoped to go.<\/p>\n

ThinkGeek is always a dangerous website for someone with a short attention span to go to. Though there isn’t a smorgasbord of items on the homepage, the products are just too cool to sometimes fight the urge to click on everything<\/strong>. I found at the bottom of the page, instead of organizing things by category, there were options to choose from popular series or games. I thought this was an appropriate approach for this particular website. On the top everything was organized in categories. Instead of using my first instinct of just using the search bar, I clicked on the fantasy and sci-fi books section to see if I could possibly land upon my desired cookbook series instantaneously. I was delighted to see so many things that sparked my interested, but no dice with the product I wanted. However, the good ol’ trustworthy search bar led me to where I needed to be after I used the same keywords as I did on Amazon. I was surprised to see that ThinkGeek only had the first edition, Wookiee Cookies and other Galactic Recipes. <\/em>Not only were they lacking in options, but it was more expensive than the price Amazon had to offer.<\/p>\n

Overall, I feel that Amazon is a great website if you need to look for something specific, but gives good suggestions for products similar to the one searched. ThinkGeek is good for looking through specialty\/odd products if you have the time to “window shop” online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a recent trip to Disney World, I have been contemplating purchasing one of the Star Wars cookbooks, but have been too lazy to look online for a copy. Disney World has every Star Wars product imaginable. This assignment has given me a reason to get my online shopping on and actually pay attention to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,80,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bi-weekly-review","category-section-b","category-student-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andrewyames.com\/artm2210\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}