{"id":16953,"date":"2009-08-27T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/08\/27\/isnt-every-dinner-at-a-technology-conference-a-geek-dinner\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T10:00:01","slug":"isnt-every-dinner-at-a-technology-conference-a-geek-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090827-01\/?p=16953","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#039;t every dinner at a technology conference a geek dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I&#8217;m always amused when somebody announces that <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoftjobsblog.com\/blog\/geek-dinner-at-tech-ed\/\"> they&#8217;re having a geek dinner at a technology conference<\/a>. I mean, at a conference like that, <i>every<\/i> dinner is a geek dinner. The geek density is so high, +4 enchanted vorpal swords quiver in fear. <\/p>\n<p> [Update 8am: Fixed broken permalink. Yay, they broke a permalink&#8230;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always amused when somebody announces that they&#8217;re having a geek dinner at a technology conference. I mean, at a conference like that, every dinner is a geek dinner. The geek density is so high, +4 enchanted vorpal swords quiver in fear. [Update 8am: Fixed broken permalink. Yay, they broke a permalink&#8230;]<\/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],"class_list":["post-16953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m always amused when somebody announces that they&#8217;re having a geek dinner at a technology conference. I mean, at a conference like that, every dinner is a geek dinner. The geek density is so high, +4 enchanted vorpal swords quiver in fear. [Update 8am: Fixed broken permalink. Yay, they broke a permalink&#8230;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953","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=16953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16953\/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=16953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}