{"id":111916,"date":"2025-12-25T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=111916"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T14:48:23","slug":"20251225-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20251225-01\/?p=111916","title":{"rendered":"Reading the fine print, episode 4: Holiday promotions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across a promotion from a hotel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>Join us for the holidays with this promotion code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But if you read down to the fine print, it also says<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>Limited number of rooms available for each date. <span style=\"border: solid 1px currentcolor;\">May not be valid during holiday<\/span> and blackout periods or combined with any other discount or promotional offers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bold print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that this was standard boilerplate they attach to all their promotions, and they didn&#8217;t realize that it conflicted with the fact that it&#8217;s a <i>holiday<\/i> promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Checking those validity dates.<\/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":[103,137],"class_list":["post-111916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-reading-the-fine-print"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Checking those validity dates.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111916","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=111916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111916\/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=111916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}