{"id":39583,"date":"2009-11-10T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123396"},"modified":"2009-11-10T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:00:56","slug":"thank-you-columbus-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39583","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Columbus, Ohio!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/johnbiggs.jpg\" alt=\"johnbiggs\" title=\"johnbiggs\" width=\"500\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123405\" \/><br \/>\nIf you weren&#8217;t at the Surly Girl Saloon last night for the Columbus CrunchGear meetup, then you were somewhere else! You missed John sporting a new pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/03\/07\/video-review-onion-goggles\/\">Onion Goggles<\/a>. You missed a nerd-a-thon comparing the Droid, HD2, iPhone, Dream, and whatever other handhelds folks could dig out of their pockets. And you missed an opportunity to put your grubby paws on not only the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/03\/the-twitterpeek-is-a-peek-that-tweets\/\">TwitterPeek<\/a> but also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/11\/10\/review-nokia-booklet-3g\/\">Nokia Booklet<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>When the TwitterPeek&#8217;s battery ran out, John became very sad:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8455.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_8455\" title=\"IMG_8455\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nerd-a-thon! That guy was doing live speed tests of the phones in front of him.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/IMG_8447.JPG\" alt=\"IMG_8447\" title=\"IMG_8447\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123403\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had a great time meeting everyone, and we hope those that joined us had as much fun as we did. Let&#8217;s do it again soon, Columbus!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5NC26PUHVLV-jqOPDnPA7yRdDIw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5NC26PUHVLV-jqOPDnPA7yRdDIw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5NC26PUHVLV-jqOPDnPA7yRdDIw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/5NC26PUHVLV-jqOPDnPA7yRdDIw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=9qrc9bi6kBo:lu8qLbIOd_Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=9qrc9bi6kBo:lu8qLbIOd_Y:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=9qrc9bi6kBo:lu8qLbIOd_Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=9qrc9bi6kBo:lu8qLbIOd_Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=9qrc9bi6kBo:lu8qLbIOd_Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you weren&#8217;t at the Surly Girl Saloon last night for the Columbus CrunchGear meetup, then you were somewhere else! You missed John sporting a new pair of Onion Goggles. You missed a nerd-a-thon comparing the Droid, HD2, iPhone, Dream, and whatever other handhelds folks could dig out of their pockets. And you missed an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}