{"id":2259,"date":"2008-02-29T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/29\/video-interlude-freshbooks-on-the-road\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T22:25:00","slug":"video-interlude-freshbooks-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/29\/video-interlude-freshbooks-on-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Video interlude: FreshBooks on the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may know, Mike McDerment &#8212; CEO of FreshBooks.com, the excellent online invoicing company based in Toronto &#8212; is a personal friend, and a fellow organizer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meshconference.com\">mesh conference<\/a> (about which more details should soon be forthcoming; cross your fingers). For some insane reason, he and a couple of the FB team decided to fly to Miami and rent an RV so they could do a road trip to Future of Web Apps and SXSW. And they <a href=\"http:\/\/roadburn.freshbooks.com\/\">created a blog<\/a> for the express purpose of tracking their journey.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how to describe this venture, except that it seems a little like what might happen if you crossed <em>Easy Rider<\/em> and Hunter S. Thompson&#8217;s <em>Where The Buffalo Roam<\/em> with National Lampoon&#8217;s <em>Vacation<\/em>. Anyway, be sure to check out their adventures, and the videos they will be posting with various software superstars along the way. And to put you in the mood, I&#8217;m posting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ds7OfXXi-c\">a video clip<\/a> that they led off with &#8212; the incomparable work of Jack Rebney, who is also known as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Rebney\">World&#8217;s Angriest RV Salesman<\/a> (Warning: turn down the sound if the kids are around).<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ds7OfXXi-c&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0&#038;w=425&#038;h=355]<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some of you may know, Mike McDerment &#8212; CEO of FreshBooks.com, the excellent online invoicing company based in Toronto &#8212; is a personal friend, and a fellow organizer of the mesh conference (about which more details should soon be forthcoming; cross your fingers). For some insane reason, he and a couple of the FB &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/29\/video-interlude-freshbooks-on-the-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video interlude: FreshBooks on the road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}