{"id":23363,"date":"2008-02-21T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/02\/21\/nobody-actually-talks-the-way-they-do-in-training-videos-do-they\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T10:00:00","slug":"nobody-actually-talks-the-way-they-do-in-training-videos-do-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080221-00\/?p=23363","title":{"rendered":"Nobody actually talks the way they do in training videos, do they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching a training video and it starts off with patently unrealistic dialog.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> I&#8217;m struggling with X. Maybe you can help me out with a different perspective, or some information that I&#8217;m not aware of. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> An opening line like that pretty much demands bad acting. You can tell that this dialogue was designed by a committee. Nobody actually talks like this.<\/p>\n<p> Well, that&#8217;s perhaps too much of a blanket statement. Maybe people talk like this at the training company that produced the video. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching a training video and it starts off with patently unrealistic dialog. I&#8217;m struggling with X. Maybe you can help me out with a different perspective, or some information that I&#8217;m not aware of. An opening line like that pretty much demands bad acting. You can tell that this dialogue was designed by a [&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-23363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m watching a training video and it starts off with patently unrealistic dialog. I&#8217;m struggling with X. Maybe you can help me out with a different perspective, or some information that I&#8217;m not aware of. An opening line like that pretty much demands bad acting. You can tell that this dialogue was designed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363","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=23363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23363\/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=23363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}