{"id":108847,"date":"2023-10-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=108847"},"modified":"2023-10-03T06:59:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:59:57","slug":"20231003-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20231003-00\/?p=108847","title":{"rendered":"A complaint about Links the Cat, the Office assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I shared some feedback submitted to the developer documentation team about <a title=\"Attention all humorless technaheads\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20160704-00\/?p=93795\"> the removal of the Office cat assistant<\/a>. I turned it into a reminiscence about Earl the Cat, but let&#8217;s return to the most likely Office assistant cat: Links the Cat.<\/p>\n<p>A bug was submitted about Links the Cat complaining that it was &#8220;licking itself suggestively&#8221;. I don&#8217;t know which specific animation the complaint was about, but maybe it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ykGIcXKAXbI&amp;t=152s\"> this one<\/a>, where Links grooms its leg.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know long it took to investigate, but the bug was eventually resolved as &#8220;By Design&#8221; with the comment, &#8220;My cat does this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do all cats do that?<\/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":[2],"class_list":["post-108847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Do all cats do that?<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108847","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=108847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108847\/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=108847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}