{"id":28633,"date":"2006-12-21T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/12\/21\/the-unanswered-explainer-questions\/"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:00:10","slug":"the-unanswered-explainer-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061221-10\/?p=28633","title":{"rendered":"The unanswered Explainer questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/?id=3944&amp;cp=1787\"> Slate&#8217;s Explainer column<\/a> answers questions about current events. Sometimes they do it multiple times, as they did when I asked them how to pronounce the name Pinochet and they said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/1001989\/\"> Pee-no-CHAY<\/a>, then later corrected themselves with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2131164\/\"> pin-oh-CHET<\/a>, and then again re-corrected themselves with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2155292\/\"> Yes<\/a>.\n Yesterday, the Explainer provided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2155836\/\"> a selection of the questions they received and didn&#8217;t answer<\/a> and invited the readers to vote on which one they would like to see answered. My favorite question was the one that begins &#8220;I have a sister that stresses the hell out of me,&#8221; and goes on and on about the car accident, how her sister complains and complains, how she had to tell the sister to stop bugging her with her problems, I mean, I was in a car accident, and concludes, &#8220;I really need to know if a person can really stress you out with the same old thing over and over and over again. PLEASE ANSWER BACK ASAP.&#8221; Comedy gold. If you made this stuff up people would say it was too unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p> As for which one I would actually like answered, I don&#8217;t know. They&#8217;re all so goofy, and the answer wouldn&#8217;t be all that enlightening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate&#8217;s Explainer column answers questions about current events. Sometimes they do it multiple times, as they did when I asked them how to pronounce the name Pinochet and they said Pee-no-CHAY, then later corrected themselves with pin-oh-CHET, and then again re-corrected themselves with Yes. Yesterday, the Explainer provided a selection of the questions they received [&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-28633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Slate&#8217;s Explainer column answers questions about current events. Sometimes they do it multiple times, as they did when I asked them how to pronounce the name Pinochet and they said Pee-no-CHAY, then later corrected themselves with pin-oh-CHET, and then again re-corrected themselves with Yes. Yesterday, the Explainer provided a selection of the questions they received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633","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=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/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=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}