{"id":25033,"date":"2007-09-20T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/09\/20\/find-the-flowers-vs-minesweeper\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T10:00:01","slug":"find-the-flowers-vs-minesweeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070920-01\/?p=25033","title":{"rendered":"Find the Flowers vs Minesweeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/users\/davevr\/\"> David Vronay<\/a> writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/shellrevealed.com\/blogs\/shellblog\/archive\/2006\/09\/26\/The-UI-design-minefield-_2D00_-er_2E002E002E00_-flower-field_3F003F00_.aspx\"> the difficult balance that has to be maintained<\/a> between people who like the classic Windows game Minesweeper and people who are (understandably) upset that Windows includes a <i>game<\/i> about landmines, trivializing a very serious issue. (Yes, the image used in the game is a water mine, not a land mine, but that&#8217;s scant consolation.) <\/p>\n<p> By the way, David, you see, the idea behind &#8220;Find the Flowers&#8221; is that it&#8217;s bad to step on flowers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Vronay writes about the difficult balance that has to be maintained between people who like the classic Windows game Minesweeper and people who are (understandably) upset that Windows includes a game about landmines, trivializing a very serious issue. (Yes, the image used in the game is a water mine, not a land mine, but [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-25033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>David Vronay writes about the difficult balance that has to be maintained between people who like the classic Windows game Minesweeper and people who are (understandably) upset that Windows includes a game about landmines, trivializing a very serious issue. (Yes, the image used in the game is a water mine, not a land mine, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033","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=25033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25033\/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=25033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}