{"id":102415,"date":"2019-04-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=102415"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:42:55","slug":"20190415-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190415-00\/?p=102415","title":{"rendered":"Today is tax day, but it&#8217;s also division meeting day, so let&#8217;s get you some forms to fill out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, there was a division-wide meeting for all of the Windows product team. <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.meydenbauer.com\/\">A local convention center<\/a> was rented out for the occasion, buses were hired to shuttle employees to and from the venue, the usual &#8220;very large meeting&#8221; nonsense. <\/p>\n<p>The meeting happened to be scheduled for April 15, which is <a HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tax_Day\">the day that individual income taxes are due in the United States<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The organizers of the meeting recognized this, and when employees entered the lobby to check in for the meeting, the organizers provided copies of <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.irs.gov\/forms-pubs\/extension-of-time-to-file-your-tax-return\">Form 4868: Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return<\/a> to anyone who wanted one, as well pre-addressed envelopes for mailing it in. <\/p>\n<p>It was a cute joke, but I saw people taking advantage of it, so maybe it was for practical purposes after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Render unto Caesar, but ask for a little more time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-102415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Render unto Caesar, but ask for a little more time.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}