{"id":222,"date":"2019-06-09T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=222"},"modified":"2019-06-09T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T21:08:30","slug":"oh-no-not-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Oh No! Not Make!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was dismayed to hear last Friday about <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/07\/make-magazine-maker-media-layoffs\/\">Maker Media ceasing operation<\/a>.  I heard rumors at the last Maker Faire that it would be <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>last\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>Maker Faire, but I didn&#8217;t think the demise was that imminent. The CEO\/Publisher of Maker media&#8211;Dale Dougherty, is a former boss and acquaintance of mine, and he stopped by my booth as I was setting up for #MFBA19 and chatted with me.  We chatted about the gruephones, old times and mutual acquaintances, but I never got the impression that he was worried about the future.  Either he&#8217;s got a great poker face, or I&#8217;m notoriously bad a picking up subtle cues. (Probably the latter.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really hope he manages the minor miracle of resurrecting the various maker faires.  I would be sad to think that those whirling maelstroms of creativity and madness would cease.  I was hoping to show off the phones at the East Bay Mini Maker Faire in October, but that&#8217;s probably not going to happen now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was dismayed to hear last Friday about Maker Media ceasing operation. I heard rumors at the last Maker Faire that it would be the last\u00c2\u00a0Maker Faire, but I didn&#8217;t think the demise was that imminent. The CEO\/Publisher of Maker media&#8211;Dale Dougherty, is a former boss and acquaintance of mine, and he stopped by my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibition","category-meta","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dial-a-grue.com\/gory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}