{"id":16633,"date":"2009-09-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/22\/things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people-episode-5\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T10:00:00","slug":"things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090922-00\/?p=16633","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#039;ve written that have amused other people, Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A question was sent to an internal discussion list for users of the XYZ tool:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> <b>From<\/b>: Q<br \/> <b>To<\/b>: XYZ Users  The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn&#8217;t work for me. &laquo;description of problem deleted&raquo; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> I responded with this message:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> <b>To<\/b>: Q, XYZ Users  The JKL tool is not part of XYZ. You should contact the author of the JKL tool. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> The reason why people were amused by this is that the author of the JKL tool is <i>me<\/i>. (Says so right there in the online help.)<\/p>\n<p> As a final punch line, the person never did contact me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A question was sent to an internal discussion list for users of the XYZ tool: From: Q To: XYZ Users The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn&#8217;t work for me. &laquo;description of problem deleted&raquo; I responded with this message: To: Q, XYZ Users The JKL tool is not part of XYZ. You should contact [&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":[26,106,134],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other","tag-the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device","tag-things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A question was sent to an internal discussion list for users of the XYZ tool: From: Q To: XYZ Users The GHI function in the JKL tool doesn&#8217;t work for me. &laquo;description of problem deleted&raquo; I responded with this message: To: Q, XYZ Users The JKL tool is not part of XYZ. You should contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633","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=16633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/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=16633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}