{"id":28743,"date":"2006-12-12T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/12\/12\/jeanne-martinet-teaches-you-how-to-survive-a-party-where-you-dont-know-anybody\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T10:00:10","slug":"jeanne-martinet-teaches-you-how-to-survive-a-party-where-you-dont-know-anybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061212-10\/?p=28743","title":{"rendered":"Jeanne Martinet teaches you how to survive a party where you don&#039;t know anybody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s the time of year where you may find yourself attending a party where you know hardly anyone. Jeanne Martinet, author of <i>The Art of Mingling<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=6595823\"> walks Steve Inskeep through a mock-party<\/a> with tips on how to join a conversation, and (perhaps more importantly) exit one. Don&#8217;t just read the article; you need to listen to the story. The mock-party is a hoot! When Susan Stamberg starts going on and on about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=4175681\"> that cranberry relish recipe<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of year where you may find yourself attending a party where you know hardly anyone. Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling, walks Steve Inskeep through a mock-party with tips on how to join a conversation, and (perhaps more importantly) exit one. Don&#8217;t just read the article; you need to listen [&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-28743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s the time of year where you may find yourself attending a party where you know hardly anyone. Jeanne Martinet, author of The Art of Mingling, walks Steve Inskeep through a mock-party with tips on how to join a conversation, and (perhaps more importantly) exit one. Don&#8217;t just read the article; you need to listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28743","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=28743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28743\/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=28743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}