{"id":29813,"date":"2006-09-07T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/09\/07\/what-you-dont-apologize-for-is-as-important-as-what-you-do\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T10:00:09","slug":"what-you-dont-apologize-for-is-as-important-as-what-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060907-09\/?p=29813","title":{"rendered":"What you don&#039;t apologize for is as important as what you do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In the aftermath of the Zidane head-butt incident, there was a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/sports\/2003141649_digs21.html\"> speculation over what Materazzi might have said to provoke Zidane&#8217;s response<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Zidane has said he attacked Materazzi because he insulted his mother and sister. Materazzi denied disparaging Zidane&#8217;s mother. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I immediately noticed the very precise denial from Materazzi. (I suspect any parent would recognize the same thing.) And <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/soccer\/2003244128_webzidane05.html\"> my suspicion was vindicated earlier this week<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Italy&#8217;s Marco Materazzi said he insulted Zinedine Zidane&#8217;s sister. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of the Zidane head-butt incident, there was a lot of speculation over what Materazzi might have said to provoke Zidane&#8217;s response. Zidane has said he attacked Materazzi because he insulted his mother and sister. Materazzi denied disparaging Zidane&#8217;s mother. I immediately noticed the very precise denial from Materazzi. (I suspect any parent [&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-29813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In the aftermath of the Zidane head-butt incident, there was a lot of speculation over what Materazzi might have said to provoke Zidane&#8217;s response. Zidane has said he attacked Materazzi because he insulted his mother and sister. Materazzi denied disparaging Zidane&#8217;s mother. I immediately noticed the very precise denial from Materazzi. (I suspect any parent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813","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=29813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29813\/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=29813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}