{"id":23453,"date":"2008-02-14T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/02\/14\/bands-of-valentine-minstrels-roaming-campus\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T10:00:00","slug":"bands-of-valentine-minstrels-roaming-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080214-00\/?p=23453","title":{"rendered":"Bands of Valentine minstrels roaming campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> One of the minor Valentine&#8217;s Day traditions at Microsoft is the charity fundraiser based on identifying targets and embarrassing them in front of all their colleagues. In exchange for a charitable donation to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanheart.org\/\"> American Heart Association<\/a> (get it?) an <i>a cappella<\/i> group will travel to an office or conference room of your designation (conference room is much better, of course) and sing a sappy song to your Valentine. (Singing Valentines are also common on college campuses.) <\/p>\n<p> This can get tricky when the victim&#8217;s spouse\/boyfriend\/girlfriend\/<i>whatever you want to call it<\/i> doesn&#8217;t work at Microsoft, because said potential prankster (1)&nbsp;needs to know about this tradition in the first place, and (2)&nbsp;needs to know some other Microsoft employee who can arrange the prank on their behalf. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the minor Valentine&#8217;s Day traditions at Microsoft is the charity fundraiser based on identifying targets and embarrassing them in front of all their colleagues. In exchange for a charitable donation to the American Heart Association (get it?) an a cappella group will travel to an office or conference room of your designation (conference [&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-23453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One of the minor Valentine&#8217;s Day traditions at Microsoft is the charity fundraiser based on identifying targets and embarrassing them in front of all their colleagues. In exchange for a charitable donation to the American Heart Association (get it?) an a cappella group will travel to an office or conference room of your designation (conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453","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=23453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/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=23453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}