{"id":568,"date":"2014-01-20T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/?p=568"},"modified":"2014-01-20T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T10:15:17","slug":"this-week-in-frankfurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2014\/01\/20\/this-week-in-frankfurt\/","title":{"rendered":"This week, in Frankfurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the latest blog post on the Grauniad&#8217;s science pages was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/brain-flapping\/2014\/jan\/20\/blue-monday-bad-science-and-nonsense-pr\">annual complaint about crap news stories about &#8216;Blue Monday&#8217;<\/a>. I&#8217;ve no idea if these stories have reached Germany (and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything about it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr-online.de\/home\/1472778,1472778.html\">Frankfurter Rundshau<\/a>), but surely it can&#8217;t be a coincidence that this week Frankfurt Messe, our exhibition centre, is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/christmasworld.messefrankfurt.com\/frankfurt\/en\/besucher\/willkommen.html\">Christmasworld<\/a> this week. It even has its own professionally made sales video, with all the emotional impact of a slushy snowball:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Christmasworld 2013 - Impressions\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/geNDLwNdZOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And not content with that, they&#8217;re also hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/paperworld.messefrankfurt.com\/frankfurt\/en\/besucher\/willkommen.html\">Paperworld<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/creativeworld.messefrankfurt.com\/frankfurt\/en\/besucher\/willkommen.html\">Creativeworld<\/a> this week too. So we can look forward to a full week of fun festive origami!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately we have to wait until October for <a href=\"http:\/\/cleanzone.messefrankfurt.com\/frankfurt\/en\/visitors\/willkommen.html\">Cleanzone<\/a> to get rid of the mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the latest blog post on the Grauniad&#8217;s science pages was the annual complaint about crap news stories about &#8216;Blue Monday&#8217;. I&#8217;ve no idea if these stories have reached Germany (and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be anything about it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/2014\/01\/20\/this-week-in-frankfurt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/boboh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}