{"id":280,"date":"2009-02-27T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T06:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2009-02-27T06:57:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T06:57:20","slug":"mashed-is-a-no-go-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/mashed-is-a-no-go-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mashed is a no go this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/27869619@N02\/2602359422\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mashed08 - The Team\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3150\/2602359422_9893ffae5b.jpg?resize=500%2C318\" alt=\"The people who made Mashed08 happen\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The people who made Mashed08 happen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you may have seen over on the <a href=\"http:\/\/backstage.bbc.co.uk\/news\/archives\/2009\/02\/mashed_2009.html\">backstage.bbc.co.uk blog<\/a> Mashed isn&#8217;t happening this year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/23\/no-crazy-ally-pally-hacking-in-2009-bbc-mashed-will-be-missed\/\">Ewan sums it up well<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>you put smart people in a room and great things happen. Put smart people in a room with their own DAB TV station and a red button service they can hack away with, and you get some gorgeous results.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mashed will be missed this year &#8211; I&#8217;ll miss organising it again &#8211; it was one of the hardest things to leave behind when I left the BBC &#8211; but at least I get to run the <a href=\"http:\/\/;plabs.com\">Lonely Planet Travel Blogger Awards<\/a> now &#8211; no crazy social flight sims &#8211; but still&#8230; loads of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I think the beeb has made the right call on trying to concentrate on doing more smaller things all over the country but I do hope when things get a bit better out there that something like Mashed comes along again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen over on the backstage.bbc.co.uk blog Mashed isn&#8217;t happening this year. Ewan sums it up well you put smart people in a room and great things happen. Put smart people in a room with their own DAB TV station and a red button service they can hack away with, and you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/mashed-is-a-no-go-this-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mashed is a no go this year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24],"tags":[238,96],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-mashed","tag-mashed","tag-mashed08"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}