{"id":3312,"date":"2009-01-16T20:32:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T03:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/01\/16\/cupcakes\/"},"modified":"2009-01-16T20:32:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T03:32:50","slug":"cupcakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/01\/16\/cupcakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cupcakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something that starts with the word &#8220;Clear&#8221; has purchased the &#8220;citywide wi-fi cloud&#8221; rights, from out of the ashes of the previous agreement that Portland had with some other entity and which proved to be a failure.\u00c2\u00a0 Their marketing campaign apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouseats.com\/2009\/01\/in-videos-cupcakes-in-new-wifi-ads-clearwire.html\">consists of cupcakes<\/a>, a metaphor wherein sprinkes are thrown about and swirled onto the frosting &#8212; that is the wifi on the city.<\/p>\n<p>So Clear Something set up a display at the end of the Park Blocks &#8212; you know the spot if you&#8217;re around here, kitty &#8211; corner to the Scientology Celebrity Center.\u00c2\u00a0 There were three giant plastic\u00c2\u00a0cupcakes encased in glass.\u00c2\u00a0 The third one had confetti blowing in the air, with some confetti attached to the frosting.\u00c2\u00a0 I rounded the block, not wanting to see whatever their presentation was but wanting to find out the answer to a single question.<\/p>\n<p>The answer was no, they were not actually giving away free cupcakes.\u00c2\u00a0 Which doesn&#8217;t make too much sense for a Cupcake Campaign, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that starts with the word &#8220;Clear&#8221; has purchased the &#8220;citywide wi-fi cloud&#8221; rights, from out of the ashes of the previous agreement that Portland had with some other entity and which proved to be a failure.\u00c2\u00a0 Their marketing campaign apparently consists of cupcakes, a metaphor wherein sprinkes are thrown about and swirled onto the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}