{"id":19673,"date":"2008-12-30T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/12\/30\/crazy-or-cell-phone\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T10:00:01","slug":"crazy-or-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081230-01\/?p=19673","title":{"rendered":"Crazy or cell phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen it, I&#8217;m sure. People walking down the street talking to themselves. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/22\/AR2006072200825.html\"> Crazy or cellphone<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p> What really gets me are the people who <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/08\/18\/8875652.aspx\"> wear the headsets even when they aren&#8217;t talking on the telephone<\/a>, but rather in <strong>anticipation<\/strong> of receiving a telephone call. To those people, I have this to say to you: <\/p>\n<p> You&#8217;re not that important. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/28039226?pg=3#Tech_JerkGadgets\"> Get over yourself<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> I remember a few years ago, I was in Los Angeles attending a little party and got a ride home from somebody who was heading my way. We got in the car, and she put on her headset before putting the car in gear. It was a half-hour drive. No telephone call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen it, I&#8217;m sure. People walking down the street talking to themselves. Crazy or cellphone? What really gets me are the people who wear the headsets even when they aren&#8217;t talking on the telephone, but rather in anticipation of receiving a telephone call. To those people, I have this to say to you: You&#8217;re [&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-19673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen it, I&#8217;m sure. People walking down the street talking to themselves. Crazy or cellphone? What really gets me are the people who wear the headsets even when they aren&#8217;t talking on the telephone, but rather in anticipation of receiving a telephone call. To those people, I have this to say to you: You&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673","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=19673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19673\/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=19673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}