{"id":26113,"date":"2007-07-06T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/07\/06\/redmond-derby-days-2007-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T10:00:01","slug":"redmond-derby-days-2007-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070706-01\/?p=26113","title":{"rendered":"Redmond Derby Days 2007 this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, the city of Redmond stages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmond.gov\/recreationarts\/derbydays\/\"> Derby Days<\/a>, an annual celebration of&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what. But what it does mean is that roads will be closed in the downtown Redmond area, so if you need to get around, you&#8217;ll have to plan ahead.\n Several years ago, one of my colleagues asked a City of Redmond employee, &#8220;What <i>is<\/i> Derby Days?&#8221; He received this very perceptive reply: &#8220;Derby Days is a very important cultural event&#8230; for the people who organize it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhome.com\/\"> ::&nbsp;Wendy&nbsp;::<\/a> remarks on the apparent <a href=\"http:\/\/wendyhome.com\/2006\/07\/09\/cargo-pants-parade\/\"> dress code<\/a> which accompanies the parade that honors&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what. Not even the people participating in the parade were able to tell her what Derby Days actually was. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, the city of Redmond stages Derby Days, an annual celebration of&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what. But what it does mean is that roads will be closed in the downtown Redmond area, so if you need to get around, you&#8217;ll have to plan ahead. Several years ago, one of my colleagues asked a City [&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-26113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Every summer, the city of Redmond stages Derby Days, an annual celebration of&#8230; I&#8217;m not sure what. But what it does mean is that roads will be closed in the downtown Redmond area, so if you need to get around, you&#8217;ll have to plan ahead. Several years ago, one of my colleagues asked a City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113","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=26113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26113\/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=26113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}