{"id":795,"date":"2008-01-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2009-05-13T21:23:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:23:35","slug":"name-dropping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/01\/name-dropping\/","title":{"rendered":"Clang. The sound of names dropping."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">A<\/span> <strong>Davos<\/strong> day. I guess it is the proximity that makes <strong>Davos<\/strong> what it is. This morning I had a few words with <strong>Jacob Zuma<\/strong>. Said hi to <strong>Mohamed Chebaro<\/strong> of Al Arabiya. Then a brief chat with the <strong>Duke of York<\/strong>, met on the stairs. Saw an old college chum who is now a poverty campaigner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cherie Booth<\/strong> stopped to talk on her way to meet <strong>Mary Robinson<\/strong>. A brush past <strong>Hamid Karzai<\/strong> and <strong>Pervez Musharraf<\/strong>. Then passed the time of day with <strong>Michael Arrington<\/strong>. <strong>David Schlesinger<\/strong> and <strong>Nic Fulton<\/strong> of Reuters showed off their nifty new mobile journalism kit, the <strong>Nokia N-82<\/strong>. Heads of State apart, most people are here stripped of the usual barriers to access.<\/p>\n<p>You just need something to talk about. Recommended conversational gambits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do you come here often?<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Nice weather for the time of year&#8230;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Are you live-streaming me?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Davos day. I guess it is the proximity that makes Davos what it is. This morning I had a few words with Jacob Zuma. Said hi to Mohamed Chebaro of Al Arabiya. Then a brief chat with the Duke of York, met on the stairs. Saw an old college chum who is now a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}