{"id":16743,"date":"2009-09-11T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/11\/most-people-who-go-to-an-open-house-arent-actually-interested-in-buying-it\/"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T10:00:01","slug":"most-people-who-go-to-an-open-house-arent-actually-interested-in-buying-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090911-01\/?p=16743","title":{"rendered":"Most people who go to an open house aren&#039;t actually interested in buying it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> You have a house for sale. You hold an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Open_house\"> open house<\/a>. But not everybody who attends is there because they&#8217;re interested in buying the house. The first wave are neighbors who are curious about the house they&#8217;ve seen for years only from the outside. Then there are the people who just enjoy looking at other people&#8217;s houses. And occasionally, people drop by <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/realestate\/2004005173_openhouses11.html\"> looking for chicken wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a house for sale. You hold an open house. But not everybody who attends is there because they&#8217;re interested in buying the house. The first wave are neighbors who are curious about the house they&#8217;ve seen for years only from the outside. Then there are the people who just enjoy looking at other [&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-16743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>You have a house for sale. You hold an open house. But not everybody who attends is there because they&#8217;re interested in buying the house. The first wave are neighbors who are curious about the house they&#8217;ve seen for years only from the outside. Then there are the people who just enjoy looking at other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743","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=16743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16743\/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=16743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}