{"id":29163,"date":"2006-10-31T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/10\/31\/so-thats-what-daddy-does-at-work\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T10:00:09","slug":"so-thats-what-daddy-does-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061031-09\/?p=29163","title":{"rendered":"So that&#039;s what daddy does at work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/craigrow\/archive\/2005\/10\/31\/487338.aspx\"> many<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jensenh\/archive\/2005\/10\/28\/486196.aspx\"> people<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/spaces.msn.com\/members\/moreart\/Blog\/cns!1pIz5aFkXvQrzU7qNE_NyxCA!789.entry\"> have<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gavinshearer.com\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/10\/munchkin_invasi.html\"> pointed out<\/a>, Hallowe&#8217;en at Microsoft is a very family-oriented affair. The parents love it because the kids are in a safe environment; the kids love it because instead of having to go from house to house, you just have to walk to the next office, and then there&#8217;s a big party in the cafeteria afterwards.\n Though it does lead to some misconceptions on the part of the younger children, the result of extrapolation from too few data points. I remember a colleague of mine who brought his young daughter to work for Hallowe&#8217;en. A conversation with &#8220;Cathy&#8221; some days later went like this:\n &#8220;Hi, Cathy.&#8221;\n &#8220;Hi.&#8221;\n &#8220;Do you know where your daddy works?&#8221;\n &#8220;He works at Microsoft.&#8221;\n &#8220;Do you know what your daddy does at work?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;He walks around and gets candy.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many people have pointed out, Hallowe&#8217;en at Microsoft is a very family-oriented affair. The parents love it because the kids are in a safe environment; the kids love it because instead of having to go from house to house, you just have to walk to the next office, and then there&#8217;s a big party [&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-29163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>As many people have pointed out, Hallowe&#8217;en at Microsoft is a very family-oriented affair. The parents love it because the kids are in a safe environment; the kids love it because instead of having to go from house to house, you just have to walk to the next office, and then there&#8217;s a big party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163","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=29163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163\/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=29163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}