{"id":16813,"date":"2009-09-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/09\/08\/things-other-people-have-written-that-have-amused-me-episode-2\/"},"modified":"2009-09-08T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T10:00:00","slug":"things-other-people-have-written-that-have-amused-me-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090908-00\/?p=16813","title":{"rendered":"Things other people have written that have amused me, Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody posted a time-saving tip and concluded with &#8220;You&#8217;ll save yourself at least 5 minutes per year.&#8221;\n I jokingly wrote back, &#8220;I already do XYZ which does this automatically, and besides, saving 5 minutes per year isn&#8217;t much anyway. I spend that much time picking my nose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> The response: &#8220;Yeah, but now you can do both nostrils.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody posted a time-saving tip and concluded with &#8220;You&#8217;ll save yourself at least 5 minutes per year.&#8221; I jokingly wrote back, &#8220;I already do XYZ which does this automatically, and besides, saving 5 minutes per year isn&#8217;t much anyway. I spend that much time picking my nose.&#8221; The response: &#8220;Yeah, but now you can do [&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":[26,134],"class_list":["post-16813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other","tag-things-ive-written-that-have-amused-other-people"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Somebody posted a time-saving tip and concluded with &#8220;You&#8217;ll save yourself at least 5 minutes per year.&#8221; I jokingly wrote back, &#8220;I already do XYZ which does this automatically, and besides, saving 5 minutes per year isn&#8217;t much anyway. I spend that much time picking my nose.&#8221; The response: &#8220;Yeah, but now you can do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813","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=16813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16813\/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=16813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}