{"id":41333,"date":"2003-12-26T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-26T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/12\/26\/famous-people-doing-mundane-things-news\/"},"modified":"2003-12-26T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-26T08:47:00","slug":"famous-people-doing-mundane-things-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031226-00\/?p=41333","title":{"rendered":"Famous people doing mundane things = news!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So an actor learns a foreign language and it&#8217;s news: <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miami.com\/mld\/miamiherald\/entertainment\/7574985.htm\">Actor Kingsley Masters Farsi Language<\/a><\/i>. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people around the world learn a foreign language without any media coverage whatsoever. <\/p>\n<p>(And if you read the article: He didn&#8217;t master Farsi. He mastered <i>basic<\/i> Farsi. Whatever that means.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So an actor learns a foreign language and it&#8217;s news: Actor Kingsley Masters Farsi Language. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people around the world learn a foreign language without any media coverage whatsoever. (And if you read the article: He didn&#8217;t master Farsi. He mastered basic Farsi. Whatever that means.)<\/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":[110,103],"class_list":["post-41333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-news-flash","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>So an actor learns a foreign language and it&#8217;s news: Actor Kingsley Masters Farsi Language. Meanwhile, tens of millions of people around the world learn a foreign language without any media coverage whatsoever. (And if you read the article: He didn&#8217;t master Farsi. He mastered basic Farsi. Whatever that means.)<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333","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=41333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41333\/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=41333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}