{"id":28583,"date":"2006-12-27T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/12\/27\/the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device-part-3\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T10:00:15","slug":"the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061227-15\/?p=28583","title":{"rendered":"The social skills of a thermonuclear device, part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Some years ago, a group different from the one I worked in invited me to &#8220;volunteer&#8221; to help them with serious problems they were having with their product. They asked to &#8220;borrow&#8221; me for one week so that I could magically resolve all their issues. I wasn&#8217;t really that familiar with their product, and I certainly didn&#8217;t know how it worked internally, so I didn&#8217;t think I could actually be much help given just one week. But they kept insisting that I &#8220;volunteer&#8221; to help them, until I finally wrote, <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> I have a lot of vacation days and I&#8217;m not afraid to use them. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> That one line catapulted me into thermonuclear device territory. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago, a group different from the one I worked in invited me to &#8220;volunteer&#8221; to help them with serious problems they were having with their product. They asked to &#8220;borrow&#8221; me for one week so that I could magically resolve all their issues. I wasn&#8217;t really that familiar with their product, and I [&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":[26,106],"class_list":["post-28583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other","tag-the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some years ago, a group different from the one I worked in invited me to &#8220;volunteer&#8221; to help them with serious problems they were having with their product. They asked to &#8220;borrow&#8221; me for one week so that I could magically resolve all their issues. I wasn&#8217;t really that familiar with their product, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583","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=28583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28583\/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=28583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}