{"id":18713,"date":"2009-03-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/03\/25\/caption-contest-the-pinball-machine\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T10:00:00","slug":"caption-contest-the-pinball-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090325-00\/?p=18713","title":{"rendered":"Caption contest: The pinball machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\nI may regret this, but here&#8217;s something new: A caption contest.\nOne of my colleagues saw this picture on a company&#8217;s Web site.\n<\/P>\n<IMG SRC=\"https:\/\/msdnshared.blob.core.windows.net\/media\/TNBlogsFS\/BlogFileStorage\/blogs_msdn\/oldnewthing\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Draftfortesting_AA00\/img30[2].jpg\" HEIGHT=\"150\" WIDTH=\"180\" ALT=\"Pinball machine with flipper about to strike ball.\">\n<P>\nThe original caption for this picture was something like\n<I>Join our affiliate program<\/I>\nor\n<I>Score big with our affiliate program<\/I>.\nYour mission is to come up with something funnier.\nHere are some ideas to get you started:\n<\/P>\n<UL>\n<LI>Do you have balls of steel? Maybe you can become an affiliate.\n<LI>We love to flip off our affiliates.\n<LI>When you become an affiliate, you&#8217;re going to get whacked around a lot.\n<LI>Sooner or later you&#8217;ll end up in the hole.\n<LI>We like to play games with you. Become an affiliate today!\n<\/UL>\n<P>\nNow it&#8217;s your turn.\nKeep it friendly.\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may regret this, but here&#8217;s something new: A caption contest. One of my colleagues saw this picture on a company&#8217;s Web site. The original caption for this picture was something like Join our affiliate program or Score big with our affiliate program. Your mission is to come up with something funnier. Here are some [&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-18713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I may regret this, but here&#8217;s something new: A caption contest. One of my colleagues saw this picture on a company&#8217;s Web site. The original caption for this picture was something like Join our affiliate program or Score big with our affiliate program. Your mission is to come up with something funnier. Here are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713","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=18713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18713\/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=18713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}