{"id":44783,"date":"2015-01-30T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2015\/01\/30\/got-errands-now-is-the-time\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:12:26","slug":"20150130-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150130-01\/?p=44783","title":{"rendered":"Got errands? Now is the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This upcoming Sunday is the Super Bowl, the championship game for a sport played only in the United States.&sup1; <\/p>\n<p>The entire country stops doing anything when the game is on. This makes it a perfect time to get out and run your errands, because the streets will be completely empty. <\/p>\n<p>Check out <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.wsdot.wa.gov\/data\/tools\/traffic\/maps\/archive\/ArchiveMapDisplay.aspx?PickDate=2014-02-02%2004:00:PM&amp;MapName=SysVert\">this traffic map<\/a> at the kickoff of the 2014 Super Bowl. For fun, you can go backward in time in 10-minute increments and watch the traffic slowly die out as the start of the game approaches. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a photographer, it&#8217;s a good time to go take pictures of public places, because they will all be deserted. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a good time to go to Costco, though you should wait until the game has started. It takes time for all the people getting last-minute party supplies to drain out. <\/p>\n<p>&sup1; Well, Canada has their own variant. They&#8217;re so cute, those Canadians. <\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus chatter<\/b>: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/117246\/chinese-football-my-season-chongqing-dockers\">The American Football League of China is a real thing<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody else is watching the game.<\/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-44783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Everybody else is watching the game.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783","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=44783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/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=44783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}