{"id":5455,"date":"2011-09-28T00:14:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T23:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=5455"},"modified":"2011-09-28T00:14:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T23:14:31","slug":"the-ultimate-disaster-that-will-spoil-the-2012-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/09\/the-ultimate-disaster-that-will-spoil-the-2012-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate disaster that will spoil the 2012 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The mobile networks are already facing a capacity crunch that, without widespread, consistent wi-fi, will leave people unable to do the most basic things such as keeping up to date with the latest travel situation and getting directions while out and about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My FSM, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2011\/sep\/27\/telecoms-telecoms\">an Olympic Games where people won&#8217;t be able to use Twitter or Facebook<\/a>! <strong>What shall we do?<\/strong> Err&#8230; ask every Olympic Games organiser in history how they managed without all these gadgets and just watched people run round a cinder track?<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I&#8217;m pretty sure the small print in London&#8217;s contract means that people can&#8217;t Tweet\/Facebook\/Hurdlepile from the Olympics unless they have paid a <em>lot<\/em>\u00a0of money to be allowed to say &#8220;summer&#8221; &#8220;olympics&#8221; &#8220;london&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;2010&#8221; and &#8220;gold&#8221; in the same status update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The mobile networks are already facing a capacity crunch that, without widespread, consistent wi-fi, will leave people unable to do the most basic things such as keeping up to date with the latest travel situation and getting directions while out and about.&#8221; My FSM, an Olympic Games where people won&#8217;t be able to use Twitter or Facebook! What shall we do? Err&#8230; ask every Olympic Games organiser in history how they managed without all these gadgets and just watched people run round a cinder track? Besides, I&#8217;m pretty sure the small print in London&#8217;s contract means that people can&#8217;t Tweet\/Facebook\/Hurdlepile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,3,24],"tags":[5516,2324,3258,2842],"class_list":["post-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-sports","tag-5516","tag-london","tag-mobile-capacity","tag-olympics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1pZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}