{"id":20013,"date":"2008-12-01T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/12\/01\/oh-i-feel-so-bad-for-those-poor-wall-street-folks-who-have-to-have-a-normal-party-instead-of-a-ridiculously-lavish-one\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:12:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:12:13","slug":"20081201-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081201-01\/?p=20013","title":{"rendered":"Oh, I feel so bad for those poor Wall Street folks who have to have a normal party instead of a ridiculously lavish one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah December, the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Christmas Holiday<\/span> Winter Party season. (Even though winter doesn&#8217;t start until the 21nd, but who&#8217;s counting?) Last year, the Wall Street event planning industry suffered a downturn. (Not that they&#8217;re doing all that great this year either.) Apparently, given the softening of the economy, companies aren&#8217;t quite willing to spend the money on parties as lavish as they once did. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2007\/12\/21\/taking-wow-out-wall-street-parties\/\"> No more models hired to just walk around<\/a>. No limo ride home. No going-home gift.<\/p>\n<p>The poor babies. I bet they just cried themselves to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaling back.<\/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-20013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Scaling back.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013","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=20013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20013\/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=20013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}