{"id":839,"date":"2008-09-19T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/friday-links-08-09-19\/"},"modified":"2018-04-04T02:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T09:45:47","slug":"friday-links-08-09-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/friday-links-08-09-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links 08-09-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>From the Web<\/h2>\n<p>Massive link dump this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenhabits.net\/2008\/08\/my-basic-running-program\/\">Leo&#8217;s BASIC Running Program<\/a> &#8211; I laughed when I saw this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pluginid.com\/personal-development\/\">A List of Personal Development Blogs by PluginID<\/a> &#8211; Yours truly also makes the list \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calnewport.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/10\/book-review-the-little-book-of-productivity\/\">Study Hacks Review of The Little Book of Productivity<\/a> &#8211; 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