{"id":32993,"date":"2005-12-13T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/12\/13\/we-microsoft-bloggers-do-talk-to-each-other-occasionally-yknow\/"},"modified":"2005-12-13T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T10:59:08","slug":"we-microsoft-bloggers-do-talk-to-each-other-occasionally-yknow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051213-08\/?p=32993","title":{"rendered":"We Microsoft bloggers do talk to each other occasionally, y&#8217;know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, somebody will spam all the Microsoft blogs with a survey or a plea for a job or some other boilerplate message. Don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re fooling anyone. It&#8217;s not like each blogger lives in a separate world and never talks to anyone else. In reality, we exchange information quite freely and even occasionally get together&mdash;usually under the aegis of our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/betsya\/\"> overworked leader Betsy<\/a>&mdash;for an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/alexbarn\/archive\/2005\/04\/13\/407995.aspx\"> informal face-to-face<\/a> (usually <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/10\/11\/479588.aspx\"> lubricated with beer<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p> Which reminds me: That April get-together was held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadoirishpub.com\/fado_directions.php?city=seattle\"> Fad&oacute; Seattle<\/a>, and at some point during the evening, I excused myself and went into the main part of the pub. I headed for what appeared to be a promising hallway, but which instead was merely a large wall covered in thematic decorations. I scanned the wall for a few seconds, then someone walking past said to me, &#8220;It&#8217;s over there, through that room, on your left.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> I found it intriguing that the gentleman knew exactly what I was looking for based on the fact that I was staring at a wall at the edge of a bar near the kitchen entrance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often, somebody will spam all the Microsoft blogs with a survey or a plea for a job or some other boilerplate message. Don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re fooling anyone. It&#8217;s not like each blogger lives in a separate world and never talks to anyone else. In reality, we exchange information quite freely and even occasionally [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-32993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Every so often, somebody will spam all the Microsoft blogs with a survey or a plea for a job or some other boilerplate message. Don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re fooling anyone. It&#8217;s not like each blogger lives in a separate world and never talks to anyone else. In reality, we exchange information quite freely and even occasionally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32993","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=32993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32993\/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=32993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}