{"id":40063,"date":"2004-03-25T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-25T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/25\/urls-too-small-here-comes-hugeurl-com\/"},"modified":"2004-03-25T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-25T17:08:00","slug":"urls-too-small-here-comes-hugeurl-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040325-00\/?p=40063\/","title":{"rendered":"URLs too small?  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