{"id":348,"date":"2007-03-11T16:44:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T21:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/the-mentos-mobile\/"},"modified":"2007-03-15T14:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:13:26","slug":"the-mentos-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/the-mentos-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mentos Mobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/183\/417193188_4441b1e244_t.jpg\" title=\"mentos girls\" alt=\"mentos girls\" align=\"right\" height=\"75\" width=\"100\" \/>We were in downtown Austin last night and sitting at the balcony of The Blind Pig. I stepped away for a moment and when I returned, I was informed that a Mentos car was parked on the street below and there was a team of Mentos girls handing out rolls up and down the street. I&#8217;m sure my eyes must have popped out of my head when I saw the beautiful blue convertible with mints and logos posted all over it. I was giddy! I hurried downstairs as quickly as I could with Ken in tow (someone needed to take the photos!). We rushed down to the car and started shooting photos. We couldn&#8217;t find the Mentos girls anywhere so I reluctantly agreed to head back up. Then I got a call from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greedyfly.com\/\">Dave<\/a>, one of the people we were sitting with, saying that the Mentos girls were back at the car. I couldn&#8217;t move fast enough! I think I inadvertently left Ken in the dust as I rushed back to the car.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the car, there were two Mentos girls and a guy carrying a giant roll of M. I got a photo with all of them. Ken and I also grabbed a roll of Mentos to take back upstairs. Later that night the Mentos guy came around on the street below us and was throwing t-shirts wrapped to look like big rolls of Mentos. They wanted people to cheer for the shirts. I of course, had no problem doing this and they threw it up to us. We missed it, but fortunately it fell on the landing right below our balcony and I was able to reach it through the rail. So I&#8217;m now the proud owner of another Mentos shirt! Who would of thought that at a wonderful tech convention (SXSW) I would run across my other vice in such force!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/scottfidd\/tags\/mentos\"> Photos from the wonderful night in Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in downtown Austin last night and sitting at the balcony of The Blind Pig. I stepped away for a moment and when I returned, I was informed that a Mentos car was parked on the street&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mentos"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/417193188_4441b1e244_t.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}