{"id":31690,"date":"2011-08-24T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=31690"},"modified":"2011-08-24T12:08:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T08:08:58","slug":"sprouter-is-back-from-the-dead-stay-tuned","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/sprouter-is-back-from-the-dead-stay-tuned","title":{"rendered":"Sprouter is back from the dead&#8230; stay tuned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"\/public\/cache\/company\/250x125\/10382_sprouter_255255255.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Toronto&#8217;s Sprouter is back.<\/p>\n<p>How did I find out? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/zombiesprouter\">@zombiesprouter<\/a> started following me on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>So I headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/sprouter.com\/blog\/update-on-sprouter\/\">Sprouter to find this update<\/a> dated today from CEO Sarah Prevetter and her team.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The lawyers have given us permission to tell you that there&rsquo;s  something going on and that we&rsquo;ll be able to tell you about it soon&hellip;  apparently, we just can&rsquo;t tell you about it now.<\/p>\n<p>So take this as our announcement about our impending announcement. An  announcement that will hopefully have a bit more detail and shed a bit  more light on current circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&rsquo;s a bit awkward and mysterious. But awkward and mysterious beats silent and secretive, right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6088\/6077027217_be7ae76027.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/>So is the Zombie Sprouter account a genius PR stunt to drive traffic back to the site?<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t look like it. The very new Twitter account is home to two tweets. One that directs readers to Sprouter&#8217;s announcement this morning and a second that takes you to <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104886990640400283427\/posts\/2JenqsxQwxa\">Trevor Stafford&#8217;s Sprouter post-mortem<\/a> which is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>The term <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zombie\">Zombie<\/a> is used to describe an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft.<\/p>\n<p>In Sprouter&#8217;s case, witchcraft is likely a fresh round of angel funding. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s Sprouter is back. How did I find out? @zombiesprouter started following me on Twitter. So I headed over to Sprouter to find this update dated today from CEO Sarah Prevetter and her team. The lawyers have given us permission to tell you that there&rsquo;s something going on and that we&rsquo;ll be able to tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1358,"featured_media":31692,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-31690","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/31690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/31690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/31692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31690"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=31690"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=31690"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=31690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}