{"id":10736,"date":"2013-08-28T12:11:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2013-08-28T12:11:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T17:11:17","slug":"attack-of-the-kling-ons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10736","title":{"rendered":"Attack of the Kling-ons"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are plenty of chief executives and wealth creators at Burning Man too, in love with their own micro-celebrity, hosting (that\u2019s tech-speak for picking up the check) dire imitations of excess. I\u2019ve seen more genuine decadence in unknown Berlin clubs than in that entire face-painted, drug-soaked annual festival of self, but to hear these \u201cBurners\u201d rabbit on, you\u2019d think they\u2019ve reinvented the profligacy of Nero\u2019s last days. Yet somehow it\u2019s become unacceptable to criticize this celebration of mutual congratulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/topic\/bi\/attack-of-the-kling-ons\/\">Attack of the Kling-ons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know Burning Man turned into a geek trade show like SXSW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are plenty of chief executives and wealth creators at Burning Man too, in love with their own micro-celebrity, hosting (that\u2019s tech-speak for picking up the check) dire imitations of excess. I\u2019ve seen more genuine decadence in unknown Berlin clubs &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-10736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10737,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions\/10737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}