{"id":16913,"date":"2009-08-31T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/08\/31\/and-they-dont-take-american-express\/"},"modified":"2009-08-31T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T10:00:01","slug":"and-they-dont-take-american-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090831-01\/?p=16913","title":{"rendered":"And they don&#039;t take American Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation between two friends of mine.\n <b>Friend&nbsp;1<\/b>: Here&#8217;s the fifteen dollars I owe you. Oh wait, I only have a twenty. Do you have a five?\n <b>Friend&nbsp;2<\/b>: I don&#8217;t carry cash. Everybody takes credit cards.\n <b>Friend&nbsp;1<\/b>: I don&#8217;t take credit cards.\n In my imagination, Friend&nbsp;1 would have responded to &#8220;Everybody takes credit cards&#8221; with &#8220;Well, in that case, here ya go. Put it on my credit card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (The title is a tag line from a Visa credit card advertising campaign from years past.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation between two friends of mine. Friend&nbsp;1: Here&#8217;s the fifteen dollars I owe you. Oh wait, I only have a twenty. Do you have a five? Friend&nbsp;2: I don&#8217;t carry cash. Everybody takes credit cards. Friend&nbsp;1: I don&#8217;t take credit cards. In my imagination, Friend&nbsp;1 would have responded to &#8220;Everybody takes credit cards&#8221; with [&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-16913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A conversation between two friends of mine. Friend&nbsp;1: Here&#8217;s the fifteen dollars I owe you. Oh wait, I only have a twenty. Do you have a five? Friend&nbsp;2: I don&#8217;t carry cash. Everybody takes credit cards. Friend&nbsp;1: I don&#8217;t take credit cards. In my imagination, Friend&nbsp;1 would have responded to &#8220;Everybody takes credit cards&#8221; with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913","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=16913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16913\/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=16913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}