{"id":1391,"date":"2010-12-09T23:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/fictional-story-of-a-flash-mob-gone-terribly-wrong\/"},"modified":"2010-12-09T23:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T23:29:00","slug":"fictional-story-of-a-flash-mob-gone-terribly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/09\/fictional-story-of-a-flash-mob-gone-terribly-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Fictional story of a flash mob gone terribly wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Fast and interesting. -egg]<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/tySdEbYtt0U\/fictional-story-of-a.html\">Fictional story of a flash mob gone terribly wrong<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Tom Scott&#8217;s Ignite London talk &#8216;Flash Mob Gone Wrong&#8217; is a fictionalized account of just how badly a flash mob could go. It&#8217;s got an eerie ring of plausibility, largely because each of the steps leading up to the disastrous ending actually happened, just not all together. 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It&#8217;s got an eerie ring of plausibility, largely because each of the steps leading up to the disastrous ending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-mr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}