{"id":1065,"date":"2003-07-25T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/25\/flash-mob-rage-hits-harvard-square\/"},"modified":"2003-07-25T07:42:24","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T11:42:24","slug":"flash-mob-rage-hits-harvard-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/25\/flash-mob-rage-hits-harvard-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Mob Rage Hits Harvard Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a400'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/flash.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"184\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Flash Mobs are groups of wired individuals who coalesce, like dust<br \/>\n    motes forming into solid physical shape, seemingly out of nowhere, at prearranged<br \/>\n    sites in cities around the world. Appearing soon at a streetcorner near you!<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Across the country, tech-savvy thirtysomethings are using the<br \/>\n        Internet to recruit crowds to gather in one place, perform a wacky stunt,<br \/>\n        and<br \/>\n        disappear 10 minutes later. They keep their activities secret &#8212; even<br \/>\n        from participants &#8212; until just minutes before the event takes place.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\">\n<p>It already has crossed the globe. Since the first flash<br \/>\n        mob in New York more than a month ago, organizers have scheduled gatherings<br \/>\n        in Minneapolis, Chicago, London, and Rome.<\/p>\n<p>While keeping details shrouded in secrecy, organizers of Boston&#8217;s<br \/>\n        first flash mob planned to convene near Harvard Square at 6 p.m. next<br \/>\n      Thursday for the stunt. Stay tuned&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/206\/metro\/Shock_tactics+.shtml\">from<br \/>\n          the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash Mobs are groups of wired individuals who coalesce, like dust motes forming into solid physical shape, seemingly out of nowhere, at prearranged sites in cities around the world. Appearing soon at a streetcorner near you! &quot;Across the country, tech-savvy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/25\/flash-mob-rage-hits-harvard-square\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}