{"id":22743,"date":"2008-04-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/15\/email-tip-nostalgia-is-not-a-question\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T10:00:00","slug":"email-tip-nostalgia-is-not-a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080415-00\/?p=22743","title":{"rendered":"Email tip: Nostalgia is not a question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is another special case of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/03\/15\/1883515.aspx\"> <i>Don&#8217;t forget to ask your question<\/i><\/a>, indeed an even more extreme case of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/09\/12\/4872632.aspx\"> <i>Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#8217;t a question<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> I remember in version&nbsp;X, we used to be able to accomplish Task&nbsp;Q by clicking on&nbsp;W and then selecting&nbsp;X. Now you have to click on&nbsp;Y and select&nbsp;Z. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Nostalgia is not a question, and it isn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2007\/10\/10\/5386979.aspx\"> actionable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> What is your question? Do you want an explanation of why it changed? Are you looking for a way to change it back? Are you just reminiscing? Or maybe you&#8217;re congratulating the design team for simplifying the task? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another special case of Don&#8217;t forget to ask your question, indeed an even more extreme case of Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#8217;t a question. I remember in version&nbsp;X, we used to be able to accomplish Task&nbsp;Q by clicking on&nbsp;W and then selecting&nbsp;X. Now you have to click on&nbsp;Y and select&nbsp;Z. [&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":[130,103],"class_list":["post-22743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-email","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This is another special case of Don&#8217;t forget to ask your question, indeed an even more extreme case of Making some statements and asking for advice isn&#8217;t a question. I remember in version&nbsp;X, we used to be able to accomplish Task&nbsp;Q by clicking on&nbsp;W and then selecting&nbsp;X. Now you have to click on&nbsp;Y and select&nbsp;Z. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743","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=22743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22743\/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=22743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}