{"id":34683,"date":"2005-08-05T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/08\/05\/have-you-made-any-assignments-in-this-space\/"},"modified":"2005-08-05T10:00:19","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T10:00:19","slug":"have-you-made-any-assignments-in-this-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050805-19\/?p=34683","title":{"rendered":"Have you made any assignments in this space?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riffing on Larry’s profound distaste for the use of the word ‘ask’ as a noun<\/a> (a distaste I share)… <\/p>\n

It’s been three years since I heard the question “Have you made any assignments in this space?” during a meeting and I still don’t know what the person was trying to say. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Riffing on Larry’s profound distaste for the use of the word ‘ask’ as a noun (a distaste I share)… It’s been three years since I heard the question “Have you made any assignments in this space?” during a meeting and I still don’t know what the person was trying to say.<\/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-34683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Riffing on Larry’s profound distaste for the use of the word ‘ask’ as a noun (a distaste I share)… It’s been three years since I heard the question “Have you made any assignments in this space?” during a meeting and I still don’t know what the person was trying to say.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683","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=34683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34683\/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=34683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}