{"id":6328,"date":"2012-06-21T13:29:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6328"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:29:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:29:59","slug":"wheres-sam-at-le-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/06\/wheres-sam-at-le-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Sam At Le Web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milo Yiannopoulos on &#8220;The Web&#8221; (okay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leweb.co\/\">Le Web<\/a> in the UK):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tuesday, the opening day of LeWeb London, could be summarised by the phrase \u201cWhere\u2019s Wally?\u201d with the wally in question being racist wantrepreneur Sam Sethi, conspicuously and inexplicably absent from the proceedings. I say inexplicably because today was Sethi\u2019s big day: the day he finally had physical access to TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Arrington has avoided the UK since 2009 thanks to a preposterous default judgment issued against him at Sethi\u2019s behest.<\/p>\n<p>This was Sethi\u2019s hour \u2013 his big chance \u2013 the moment he would at last be able to stride triumphantly up the aisle of Westminster\u2019s Central Hall, leap onto the stage and slap the judgment down in front of Arrington, crowing that even though he may not have been able to forge a career of his own without epic, embarrassing and even life-threatening fuck-ups, he could at least enjoy his moment of justice.\u00a0Alas, it was not to be. Spineless Sam was a no-show, despite telling friends last week he intended to cause a scene at the conference and possibly involve the police.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can&#8217;t think why I&#8217;m smiling over this one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milo Yiannopoulos on &#8220;The Web&#8221; (okay, Le Web in the UK): Tuesday, the opening day of LeWeb London, could be summarised by the phrase \u201cWhere\u2019s Wally?\u201d with the wally in question being racist wantrepreneur Sam Sethi, conspicuously and inexplicably absent from the proceedings. I say inexplicably because today was Sethi\u2019s big day: the day he finally had physical access to TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington. Arrington has avoided the UK since 2009 thanks to a preposterous default judgment issued against him at Sethi\u2019s behest. This was Sethi\u2019s hour \u2013 his big chance \u2013 the moment he would at last be able<\/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":[53,25],"tags":[3647,456,3646],"class_list":["post-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-and-blogging","category-link-log","tag-blognation","tag-le-web","tag-sam-sethi","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","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=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}