{"id":102606,"date":"2019-06-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=102606"},"modified":"2019-06-20T21:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T04:47:37","slug":"20190621-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20190621-00\/?p=102606\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Microsoft Giving Campaign Run\/Walk comes with some ground rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/philanthropies\/employee-engagement\"> Microsoft Giving Campaign<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/raceroster.com\/events\/2018\/19598\/annual-microsoft-giving-campaign-ms5k-walkrun-after-party\">5K Run\/Walk<\/a>, which raises money in support of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org\/\"> Crohn&#8217;s &amp; Colitis Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kexp.org\/\"> KEXP<\/a> radio, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgcbellevue.org\/\"> Boys &amp; Girls Clubs of Bellevue<\/a>, and (new this year) <a href=\"https:\/\/plymouthhousing.org\/\"> Plymouth Housing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun event, not a race, and friends and family are welcome to participate. But one of my colleagues pointed out that there are some ground rules:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p>To ensure that this is a safe and fun event for all participants, the following are not permitted on the race course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pets (this policy does not apply to service animals)<\/li>\n<li>skateboards or rollerblades<\/li>\n<li>wagons<\/li>\n<li>scooters or segways<\/li>\n<li>office chairs <span style=\"color: red;\">\u21d0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>any other items deemed potential hazards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You can try to guess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rm7C3fkY_Ro&amp;t=1m5s\"> how that fifth item got on the list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Related<\/b>: <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100713-00\/?p=13443\"> Tips for planning your ship party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each rule has a story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-102606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Each rule has a story.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102606","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=102606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102606\/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=102606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}