{"id":16623,"date":"2009-09-23T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/23\/weve-got-your-hotel-surrounded-on-one-side-and-not-even-the-entire-side\/"},"modified":"2019-03-27T23:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T06:20:22","slug":"weve-got-your-hotel-surrounded-on-one-side-and-not-even-the-entire-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090923-01\/?p=16623","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve got your hotel surrounded (on one side) (and not even the entire side)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local hotel advertises itself like so:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/hotel\/United_States--WA\/Bellevue\/Larkspur_Landing_Seattle_-_Bellevue.h81054\/\"> Surrounding the hotel<\/a> are popular Seattle attractions such as Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Safeco Park, home of baseball&#8217;s Seattle Mariners, and Qwest Field, home of football&#8217;s Seattle Seahawks, all just a short drive away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, first, it&#8217;s Safeco Field, not Safeco Park. Mind you, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/07\/26\/679045.aspx\"> misspelled <i>Qwest Field<\/i><\/a> in the past, so maybe I shouldn&#8217;t complain. But let&#8217;s look at those Seattle attractions which &#8220;surround&#8221; the hotel: <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/maps\/default.aspx?v=2&amp;FORM=LMLTCP&amp;cp=47.598982~-122.240444&amp;style=r&amp;lvl=11&amp;tilt=-90&amp;dir=0&amp;alt=-1000&amp;phx=0&amp;phy=0&amp;phscl=1&amp;sp=Point.rxwmz74tp354_Hotel____~Point.ry1f7b4t4c3k_Pike%20Place%20Market____~Point.ry326t4t3t1k_Space%20Needle____~Point.rxyj7s4t52tm_Safeco%20Field____~Point.rxz96y4t53vz_Qwest%20Field____~Polygon.ry317x4t3vbw_rxwmj04tp3yj_rxyjwp4t53ky_ry317x4t3vbw_Surrounded%3F____%230000FF_%23008000_2pt_Single_Solid_rxzd6w4t9pz3_&amp;encType=1\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>They all lie in the same direction and subtend a total of twelve degrees of arc. This is a sense of the word &#8220;surround&#8221; I was previously unfamiliar with. Let&#8217;s hope these marketing folks never end up working for the police department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before we continue, we need to surround the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <i>No problem, Chief, I&#8217;ve already got that.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And then the bad guys sneak out the back door.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <i>I don&#8217;t understand how they got away. We had the place surrounded!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local hotel advertises itself like so: Surrounding the hotel are popular Seattle attractions such as Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Safeco Park, home of baseball&#8217;s Seattle Mariners, and Qwest Field, home of football&#8217;s Seattle Seahawks, all just a short drive away. Okay, first, it&#8217;s Safeco Field, not Safeco Park. Mind you, I&#8217;ve misspelled [&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-16623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A local hotel advertises itself like so: Surrounding the hotel are popular Seattle attractions such as Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, Safeco Park, home of baseball&#8217;s Seattle Mariners, and Qwest Field, home of football&#8217;s Seattle Seahawks, all just a short drive away. Okay, first, it&#8217;s Safeco Field, not Safeco Park. Mind you, I&#8217;ve misspelled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623","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=16623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16623\/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=16623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}