{"id":10953,"date":"2011-04-12T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/04\/12\/overheard-conversation-fragment-im-over-here-by-the-slot-machines\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T07:00:01","slug":"overheard-conversation-fragment-im-over-here-by-the-slot-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110412-01\/?p=10953","title":{"rendered":"Overheard conversation fragment: I&#039;m over here by the slot machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on a trip to Las Vegas, I happened to overhear a woman talking on her mobile phone who, from her body language, was clearly trying to meet up with a friend. We were in the casino of one of the major hotels. She said, &#8220;I&#8217;m over here by the slot machines.&#8221;\n Yeah, that narrows it down.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ll be heading to Vegas for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ch9.ms\/nineys\"> Niney Awards<\/a>. If I don&#8217;t see you at the ceremony, I&#8217;ll meet you by the slot machines. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on a trip to Las Vegas, I happened to overhear a woman talking on her mobile phone who, from her body language, was clearly trying to meet up with a friend. We were in the casino of one of the major hotels. She said, &#8220;I&#8217;m over here by the slot machines.&#8221; Yeah, that narrows [&hellip;]<\/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-10953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>While on a trip to Las Vegas, I happened to overhear a woman talking on her mobile phone who, from her body language, was clearly trying to meet up with a friend. We were in the casino of one of the major hotels. She said, &#8220;I&#8217;m over here by the slot machines.&#8221; Yeah, that narrows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953","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=10953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10953\/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=10953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}