{"id":34373,"date":"2005-08-30T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/08\/30\/on-the-adult-appeal-of-dodgeball\/"},"modified":"2005-08-30T10:00:13","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T10:00:13","slug":"on-the-adult-appeal-of-dodgeball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050830-13\/?p=34373","title":{"rendered":"On the adult appeal of dodgeball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NPR&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyagame.org\/\"> Only a Game<\/a> recently covered the rise of <a href=\"http:\/\/realserver.bu.edu:8080\/ramgen\/w\/b\/wbur\/oag\/audio\/2005\/08\/oag_0827.rm?start=25:56\"> adult dodgeball<\/a>. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/\">MSN<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shahine.com\/omar\/CommentView,guid,f3b46856-2fee-4ad8-a633-72b07b57ac02.aspx\"> tenth birthday party<\/a> last week, there was a wide variety of entertainment options, the highlight of which appeared to be an organized dodgeball tournament. It was very well attended and didn&#8217;t have the ego-damaging overtones you got from elementary school. A good time was had by all. <\/p>\n<p> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/exec\/dcole\/default.mspx\"> Senior Vice President of MSN<\/a> happens also to have been the  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/08\/24\/455557.aspx\"> development manager of Windows&nbsp;95<\/a>, so he made the generous gesture of inviting the members of the Windows&nbsp;95 team to his group&#8217;s birthday party. (Since the remaining members of the Windows&nbsp;95 team are outnumbered forty-to-one by the current members of the MSN team, it gave the impression that Windows&nbsp;95 was merely an after-thought to MSN! &#8220;Ten years ago, MSN&nbsp;1.0 went live! And if I recall correctly, some little operating system rode our coattails.&#8221;) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Only a Game recently covered the rise of adult dodgeball. At MSN&#8216;s tenth birthday party last week, there was a wide variety of entertainment options, the highlight of which appeared to be an organized dodgeball tournament. It was very well attended and didn&#8217;t have the ego-damaging overtones you got from elementary school. A good [&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-34373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>NPR&#8217;s Only a Game recently covered the rise of adult dodgeball. At MSN&#8216;s tenth birthday party last week, there was a wide variety of entertainment options, the highlight of which appeared to be an organized dodgeball tournament. It was very well attended and didn&#8217;t have the ego-damaging overtones you got from elementary school. A good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34373","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=34373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34373\/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=34373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}