{"id":46,"date":"2013-06-26T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bimedia.org\/blogs\/?guid=39d08efa0eb5e47ee7b8a4ee1545ca5f"},"modified":"2013-06-26T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T12:07:34","slug":"wired-for-bicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2013\/06\/wired-for-bicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Wired for BiCon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things people always want to know about <a href=\"http:\/\/bicon2013.org.uk\/\">BiCon<\/a> these days is whether they will be able to get onto the internet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I think BiCon Treforest was the turning point &#8211; before that there was a large puddle of LiveJournal users waiting til they got home for their fix, but I think 2007 is the last time I remember us all seeming to muddle through with just a small room of internet-wired computers for people to dip into.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t spotted any official comment either way from the organising team but I was noodling at the website for the venue and for all four accommodation blocks it lists among the features of the rooms,<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>&#8220;<b><i>free cabled internet access<\/i><\/b>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds like we will have the internet, folks. But remember to bring a little ethernet cable with your laptop. <\/p>\n<p>I do hope so. I can hardly type accurately for texts on my little phone, never mind trying to post updates to <a href=\"http:\/\/bimedia.org\/\">BiMedia<\/a> and suchlike!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things people always want to know about BiCon these days is whether they will be able to get onto the internet.&nbsp;I think BiCon Treforest was the turning point &#8211; before that there was a large puddle of LiveJournal users waiting til they g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bi","category-bicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}