{"id":1813,"date":"2014-02-10T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2014\/02\/10\/excuses-i-learned-from-babies\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T07:00:01","slug":"excuses-i-learned-from-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20140210-01\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Excuses I learned from babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was visiting a friend of mine, and his young daughter was being unusually cranky. He explained, “Oh, she’s teething.”\n I filed that away as an excuse I could use the next time I felt cranky. “Sorry about that. I’m teething.”\n Here’s another excuse you might want to use:<\/p>\n

“No, I’m not drunk. I simply lost interest in remaining upright<\/a>.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was visiting a friend of mine, and his young daughter was being unusually cranky. He explained, “Oh, she’s teething.” I filed that away as an excuse I could use the next time I felt cranky. “Sorry about that. I’m teething.” Here’s another excuse you might want to use: “No, I’m not drunk. I simply […]<\/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-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

I was visiting a friend of mine, and his young daughter was being unusually cranky. He explained, “Oh, she’s teething.” I filed that away as an excuse I could use the next time I felt cranky. “Sorry about that. I’m teething.” Here’s another excuse you might want to use: “No, I’m not drunk. I simply […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/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=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}