{"id":33093,"date":"2005-12-05T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-05T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/12\/05\/its-always-a-good-idea-to-check-your-sources\/"},"modified":"2005-12-05T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2005-12-05T10:00:10","slug":"its-always-a-good-idea-to-check-your-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20051205-10\/?p=33093","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s always a good idea to check your sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/06\/22\/162361.aspx\"> our cafeteria<\/a> was trying to sell three-packs of bottled water. A sign proudly announced:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\">\n<p align=\"CENTER\"><b>Drink more water: What you should know about H<sub>2<\/sub>O<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Make it easy. Carry a bottle of water when you commute to work or run errands. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> This is what I should know about H<sub>2<\/sub>O? <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Drink more water&#8221;:  Notice that they didn&#8217;t specify a target amount. Just drink more. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Carry a bottle of water when you commute&#8221;: I should drive with one hand on the wheel and the other hand clutching a bottle of water? Isn&#8217;t that dangerous? <\/p>\n<p> And who is providing this &#8220;helpful&#8221; information? <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> Source: International Bottled Water Association <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Hardly an impartial organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, our cafeteria was trying to sell three-packs of bottled water. A sign proudly announced: Drink more water: What you should know about H2O Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Make it easy. Carry a bottle of water when you commute to work or run errands. This is what I should know [&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-33093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>For a while, our cafeteria was trying to sell three-packs of bottled water. A sign proudly announced: Drink more water: What you should know about H2O Drink plenty of water throughout the day. Make it easy. Carry a bottle of water when you commute to work or run errands. This is what I should know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093","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=33093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33093\/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=33093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}