{"id":269,"date":"2012-05-28T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T14:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badhedgehog.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2012-11-01T10:57:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T10:57:49","slug":"nokia-and-the-wrc-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/nokia-and-the-wrc-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Nokia and the WRC: the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update to my <a title=\"Nokia, ai Jumala! (Nokia, oh God!)\" href=\"http:\/\/badhedgehog.com\/2012\/04\/nokia-ai-jumala-nokia-oh-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous post on Nokia&#8217;s woes<\/a>, and the ill-fortune of the World Rally Championship in having a doomed sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend&#8217;s (May 24-27) Acropolis Rally of Greece was the last rally for Nokia as sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>We have still heard nothing at all from the FIA regarding new sponsors, new funding, a new promoter, TV coverage, or much of anything. The situation is not the one that manufacturers signed up to.<\/p>\n<p>Now would really be the time for Mr Mahonen or Mme Mouton to say something. Even a short placeholder statement of &#8220;we&#8217;re working on it&#8221; would be better than nothing at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update to my previous post on Nokia&#8217;s woes, and the ill-fortune of the World Rally Championship in having a doomed sponsor. Last weekend&#8217;s (May 24-27) Acropolis Rally of Greece was the last rally for Nokia as sponsor. We have &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/2012\/05\/nokia-and-the-wrc-the-end\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rally","category-sport-on-telly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atantalus.com\/badhedgehog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}