{"id":40653,"date":"2004-02-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-12T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/02\/12\/improbable-research-comes-to-seattle\/"},"modified":"2004-02-12T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-12T07:00:00","slug":"improbable-research-comes-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040212-00\/?p=40653","title":{"rendered":"Improbable Research comes to Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lunatics behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\">The Annals of Improbable Research<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/ig-top.html\">The Ig Nobel Prize<\/a> will be <a href=\"http:\/\/improbable.typepad.com\/improbable_research_whats\/2004\/02\/improbable_show.html\">in Seattle tomorrow night, Feburary 13<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaas.org\/meetings\/MPE_13_Chron.shtml\">meeting schedule<\/a> lists the AIR presentation as &#8220;8:00PM-10:30PM, Special Event: Annals of Improbable Research (open to all registrants), Sheraton Hotel, Third Floor, Metropolitan Ballroom&#8221;. The AIR folks said &#8220;Open to the public&#8221;; maybe they won&#8217;t be checking for an AAAS membership card at the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lunatics behind The Annals of Improbable Research and The Ig Nobel Prize will be in Seattle tomorrow night, Feburary 13. The meeting schedule lists the AIR presentation as &#8220;8:00PM-10:30PM, Special Event: Annals of Improbable Research (open to all registrants), Sheraton Hotel, Third Floor, Metropolitan Ballroom&#8221;. The AIR folks said &#8220;Open to the public&#8221;; maybe [&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-40653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The lunatics behind The Annals of Improbable Research and The Ig Nobel Prize will be in Seattle tomorrow night, Feburary 13. The meeting schedule lists the AIR presentation as &#8220;8:00PM-10:30PM, Special Event: Annals of Improbable Research (open to all registrants), Sheraton Hotel, Third Floor, Metropolitan Ballroom&#8221;. The AIR folks said &#8220;Open to the public&#8221;; maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653","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=40653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40653\/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=40653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}