{"id":13863,"date":"2010-06-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/06\/01\/welcome-to-the-maze-and-enjoy-the-habitrail\/"},"modified":"2010-06-01T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T07:00:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-maze-and-enjoy-the-habitrail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100601-00\/?p=13863","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the maze and enjoy the Habitrail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Microsoft Press and Microsoft Learning moved to new buildings in downtown Bellevue, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/microsoft_press\/archive\/2009\/01\/30\/moving-day.aspx\"> bidding good-bye to <i>The Maze<\/i><\/a>. This was a nickname for their former building I had been unfamiliar with, but not having been to their building, I can&#8217;t say whether the name is deserved or not.\n What I do know, however, is that the small cluster of buildings they moved from are connected by enclosed walkways, which are nicknamed the <i>Habitrail<\/i> due to their startling similarity to the hamster transportation tubes. Back in the old days, these corridors were lined with stand-up arcade consoles, owned by the people who work in the buildings, and placed there for anybody to stop by and unwind with a game of <i>Star Wars<\/i> or <i>Asteroids<\/i> or some other classic arcade game.<\/p>\n<p> Alas, the impromptu arcade game center had to be shut down when the building safety people determined that it posed a fire safety hazard. (I suspect that the reason was not only that the machines were powered by daisy-chained extension cords, but also that safety rules required that the corridor remain clear of obstacles at all times.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Microsoft Press and Microsoft Learning moved to new buildings in downtown Bellevue, bidding good-bye to The Maze. This was a nickname for their former building I had been unfamiliar with, but not having been to their building, I can&#8217;t say whether the name is deserved or not. What I do know, however, is [&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-13863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last year, Microsoft Press and Microsoft Learning moved to new buildings in downtown Bellevue, bidding good-bye to The Maze. This was a nickname for their former building I had been unfamiliar with, but not having been to their building, I can&#8217;t say whether the name is deserved or not. What I do know, however, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863","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=13863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13863\/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=13863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}