{"id":20513,"date":"2008-10-20T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/10\/20\/off-roading-the-old-new-thing\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T10:00:01","slug":"off-roading-the-old-new-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20081020-01\/?p=20513","title":{"rendered":"Off-Roading The Old New Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendyhome.com\/\">::Wendy::<\/a> decided that going off topic in the comments to this Web site was so much fun, she didn&#8217;t want to let the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/02\/21\/77681.aspx\"> Ground Rules<\/a> stop her. So she created the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/off-roading-the-old-new-thing\/\"> Off-Roading The Old New Thing<\/a> group, where people who get a thrill out of going off topic can do so without running afoul of this Web site&#8217;s Ground Rules. <\/p>\n<p> Have fun, everybody! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend ::Wendy:: decided that going off topic in the comments to this Web site was so much fun, she didn&#8217;t want to let the Ground Rules stop her. So she created the Off-Roading The Old New Thing group, where people who get a thrill out of going off topic can do so without running [&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-20513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>My friend ::Wendy:: decided that going off topic in the comments to this Web site was so much fun, she didn&#8217;t want to let the Ground Rules stop her. So she created the Off-Roading The Old New Thing group, where people who get a thrill out of going off topic can do so without running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513","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=20513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20513\/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=20513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}