{"id":29423,"date":"2006-10-11T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/10\/11\/proto-microspeak-the-goat-rodeo\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T10:00:14","slug":"proto-microspeak-the-goat-rodeo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20061011-14\/?p=29423","title":{"rendered":"Proto-Microspeak: The goat rodeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody at a meeting two years ago used the term &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.doubletongued.org\/citations.php\/citations\/goat_rodeo_1\/\">goat rodeo<\/a>&#8221; to describe a completely confused situation. The term stuck with me as a really funny folksy analogy. It&#8217;s not official Microspeak, but who knows, it may someday gain currency. I certainly enjoy saying it.\n &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221;\n &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221;\n &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> (Some earlier Microspeak entries: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/07\/05\/173226.aspx\"> schedule chicken<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/02\/13\/530960.aspx\"> baking<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody at a meeting two years ago used the term &#8220;goat rodeo&#8221; to describe a completely confused situation. The term stuck with me as a really funny folksy analogy. It&#8217;s not official Microspeak, but who knows, it may someday gain currency. I certainly enjoy saying it. &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221; &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221; &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221; (Some earlier Microspeak [&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":[105,26],"class_list":["post-29423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-microspeak","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Somebody at a meeting two years ago used the term &#8220;goat rodeo&#8221; to describe a completely confused situation. The term stuck with me as a really funny folksy analogy. It&#8217;s not official Microspeak, but who knows, it may someday gain currency. I certainly enjoy saying it. &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221; &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221; &#8220;Goat rodeo.&#8221; (Some earlier Microspeak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423","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=29423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423\/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=29423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}