{"id":40863,"date":"2004-01-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/01\/27\/undermining-your-own-proclamation\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T07:00:00","slug":"undermining-your-own-proclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040127-00\/?p=40863","title":{"rendered":"Undermining your own proclamation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pulling for the Mars rovers as much as the next geek, but you still have to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/international.cfm?id=95032004\"> scratch your head at the following statement<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p> Charles Elachi, the JPL director, said: &#8220;I am completely confident, without any hesitation, that I think we will get that rover back to full operation.&#8221;  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> So he&#8217;s absolutely sure that he &#8220;thinks&#8221; something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pulling for the Mars rovers as much as the next geek, but you still have to scratch your head at the following statement: Charles Elachi, the JPL director, said: &#8220;I am completely confident, without any hesitation, that I think we will get that rover back to full operation.&#8221; So he&#8217;s absolutely sure that he [&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-40863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I&#8217;m pulling for the Mars rovers as much as the next geek, but you still have to scratch your head at the following statement: Charles Elachi, the JPL director, said: &#8220;I am completely confident, without any hesitation, that I think we will get that rover back to full operation.&#8221; So he&#8217;s absolutely sure that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40863","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=40863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40863\/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=40863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}