{"id":19563,"date":"2009-01-07T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/01\/07\/raymond-misreads-flyers-a-taste-of-wwl\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T10:00:01","slug":"raymond-misreads-flyers-a-taste-of-wwl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090107-01\/?p=19563","title":{"rendered":"Raymond misreads flyers: A Taste of WWL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were flyers in our building inviting people to attend a food event called <i>A Taste of WWL<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p> The letters WWL stand for <i>Windows and Windows Live<\/i>, but the font they chose for the sign was confusing to me. The capital L looked like a capital I, and I misread the poster as an invitation to attend <i>A Taste of WWI<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p> And then I thought, &#8220;Who the heck thought World War&nbsp;I was a fun event we&#8217;d want to re-experience?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> One of my colleagues, who also misread the poster, had a much more succinct response: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/guides\/mmmm.html\">Mmmm<\/a>&#8230; mustard gas&#8230;&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were flyers in our building inviting people to attend a food event called A Taste of WWL. The letters WWL stand for Windows and Windows Live, but the font they chose for the sign was confusing to me. The capital L looked like a capital I, and I misread the poster as an invitation [&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-19563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>There were flyers in our building inviting people to attend a food event called A Taste of WWL. The letters WWL stand for Windows and Windows Live, but the font they chose for the sign was confusing to me. The capital L looked like a capital I, and I misread the poster as an invitation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563","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=19563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19563\/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=19563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}