{"id":31623,"date":"2006-04-06T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/04\/06\/sometimes-you-just-have-to-make-a-snap-decision\/"},"modified":"2006-04-06T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T10:00:21","slug":"sometimes-you-just-have-to-make-a-snap-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060406-21\/?p=31623","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you just have to make a snap decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon, my phone rings.\n “Hello?”\n “Quick! We’re on our way to the nursery. Do you want to come?”\n I recognize the voice as one of my friends who recently bought a house and presumably is doing some spring landscaping. But I have to answer fast. Time for a snap decision.\n “No.”\n My friend seems surprised that I give my answer so quickly.\n “Oh! Well then! Bye.”<\/p>\n

If you tell me I have to answer fast, you shouldn’t act all offended if I give a quick answer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon, my phone rings. “Hello?” “Quick! We’re on our way to the nursery. Do you want to come?” I recognize the voice as one of my friends who recently bought a house and presumably is doing some spring landscaping. But I have to answer fast. Time for a snap decision. “No.” My friend seems […]<\/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-31623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Saturday afternoon, my phone rings. “Hello?” “Quick! We’re on our way to the nursery. Do you want to come?” I recognize the voice as one of my friends who recently bought a house and presumably is doing some spring landscaping. But I have to answer fast. Time for a snap decision. “No.” My friend seems […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623","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=31623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31623\/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=31623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}