{"id":853,"date":"2004-10-01T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2004\/10\/has_flashmob_th\/"},"modified":"2004-10-01T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T11:24:04","slug":"has_flashmob_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/has_flashmob_th\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Flashmob The Opera Been Cancelled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of BBC Three&#8217;s autumn highlights was to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/pressreleases\/stories\/2004\/08_august\/24\/3autumn.shtml\">Flashmob the Opera<\/a>, which was to take place next <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcthree\/tvlistings\/programme.shtml?day=wednesday&#038;filename=20041006\/20041006_2000_4288_34902_60\">Wednesday<\/a>.<br \/>\nLast week I got an email from <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/londonmobs\/\">Londonmobs<\/a> telling me to prepare for a mob event near Paddington on Wednesday 6 October. But a few minutes ago saying that is was being cancelled for security reasons&#8230;<br \/>\nI probably shouldn&#8217;t be blogging about this, since first rule Londonblogs is that you don&#8217;t talk about Londonblogs, but I can quite see how inviting untold thousands to a commuter railway station on a weekday evening (albeit at 8.00pm) isn&#8217;t a great idea. Maybe they&#8217;ll shift the whole thing to Blackheath or somewhere?<br \/>\nUPDATE: Maybe not, because it&#8217;s being actively promoted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bbcthree\/tv\/flashmob.shtml\">BBC Three website<\/a>. I note, however, that it&#8217;s now only saying that it&#8217;ll be held in a central London venue. I&#8217;d guess that it&#8217;ll have to be somewhere where numbers are easily limited, and where it&#8217;s not potentially going to cause chaos to commuters. Still I suppose you could do both the BBC Three thing and first go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobile-clubbing.com\/pillow.html\">Pillow Fight Club<\/a>.<br \/>\nUPDATE 2: It happened, and it happened at Paddington. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000942.html\">Look here for more<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of BBC Three&#8217;s autumn highlights was to be Flashmob the Opera, which was to take place next Wednesday. Last week I got an email from Londonmobs telling me to prepare for a mob event near Paddington on Wednesday 6 October. But a few minutes ago saying that is was being cancelled for security reasons&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}