{"id":16433,"date":"2009-10-08T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/10\/08\/in-hawaii-mahalo-might-officially-mean-thank-you\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:00:01","slug":"in-hawaii-mahalo-might-officially-mean-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091008-01\/?p=16433","title":{"rendered":"In Hawai&#699;i, &#034;mahalo&#034; might officially mean &#034;thank you&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Hawai&#699;i, you see the word <i>Mahalo<\/i> on signs everywhere. In theory, the word means <i>Thank you<\/i>, but my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eightypercent.net\"> Joe Beda<\/a> pointed out that in practice the word has a completely different meaning. Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We do not accept coupons at this location. Mahalo. <\/li>\n<li>No refills. Mahalo. <\/li>\n<li>This counter is closed. Mahalo. <\/li>\n<li>Elevator is out of order. Please use stairs. Mahalo. <\/li>\n<li>Rest rooms for customers only. Mahalo. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> In practice, the word <i>mahalo<\/i> means <i>You&#8217;re screwed<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> <b>Obligatory clarification<\/b>: This was a joke, an attempt at observational humor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Hawai&#699;i, you see the word Mahalo on signs everywhere. In theory, the word means Thank you, but my friend Joe Beda pointed out that in practice the word has a completely different meaning. Here are some examples: We do not accept coupons at this location. Mahalo. No refills. Mahalo. This counter is closed. Mahalo. [&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-16433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In Hawai&#699;i, you see the word Mahalo on signs everywhere. In theory, the word means Thank you, but my friend Joe Beda pointed out that in practice the word has a completely different meaning. Here are some examples: We do not accept coupons at this location. Mahalo. No refills. Mahalo. This counter is closed. Mahalo. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433","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=16433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16433\/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=16433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}