{"id":34503,"date":"2005-08-19T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/08\/19\/justifiable-assault-with-folding-chair\/"},"modified":"2005-08-19T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-19T10:00:10","slug":"justifiable-assault-with-folding-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050819-10\/?p=34503","title":{"rendered":"Justifiable assault with folding chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Everybody&#8217;s lunchtime conversation a few days ago was the <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8973616\/\"> riot at a used laptop sale in Richmond, VA<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/output.aspx?Article_ID=3834354&amp;Vertical_ID=127&amp;tier=1&amp;position=1\">Local coverage<\/a>.] What got me was this fellow Jesse Sandler: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\">\n<p> &#8220;I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, &#8216;Bam,'&#8221; the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> Because if somebody cuts in front of you in line, you are perfectly justified in assaulting them with a folding chair. That&#8217;s one of the guiding principles this country was founded on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s lunchtime conversation a few days ago was the riot at a used laptop sale in Richmond, VA. [Local coverage.] What got me was this fellow Jesse Sandler: &#8220;I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, &#8216;Bam,&#8217;&#8221; the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of [&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-34503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Everybody&#8217;s lunchtime conversation a few days ago was the riot at a used laptop sale in Richmond, VA. [Local coverage.] What got me was this fellow Jesse Sandler: &#8220;I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, &#8216;Bam,&#8217;&#8221; the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503","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=34503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34503\/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=34503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}