{"id":42513,"date":"2003-09-13T21:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/09\/13\/im-not-sure-if-this-was-a-dare\/"},"modified":"2003-09-13T21:09:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T21:09:00","slug":"im-not-sure-if-this-was-a-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20030913-00\/?p=42513","title":{"rendered":"I'm not sure if this was a dare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Beda<\/a> stopped by my office, clutching a stack of documents he had just had notarized, and told me, “Raymond, you should become a notary public.” <\/p>\n

“Why?” <\/p>\n

“It’d be fun.” <\/p>\n

“Notarizing documents is fun?” <\/p>\n

“No, just being<\/u> a notary public – just knowing that you had the power to notarize documents – would be fun. Besides, you’d be good at it, since you’re such a stickler for the rules. I wonder what the qualifications for being a notary public are, anyway.” <\/p>\n

So I went and looked up the process of becoming a notary public in the State of Washington<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The requirements are deceptively simple: Ability to execute the duties of a notary public (and indeed, requirement to perform said duties upon demand), a $10,000 surety bond, a clean criminal record, and three character references who will affirm that I am “a person of good moral character”. That last one might be tricky. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Beda stopped by my office, clutching a stack of documents he had just had notarized, and told me, “Raymond, you should become a notary public.” “Why?” “It’d be fun.” “Notarizing documents is fun?” “No, just being a notary public – just knowing that you had the power to notarize documents – would be fun. […]<\/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-42513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Joe Beda stopped by my office, clutching a stack of documents he had just had notarized, and told me, “Raymond, you should become a notary public.” “Why?” “It’d be fun.” “Notarizing documents is fun?” “No, just being a notary public – just knowing that you had the power to notarize documents – would be fun. […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42513","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=42513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42513\/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=42513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}