{"id":5513,"date":"2013-01-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/01\/21\/the-changing-name-of-the-microsoft-event-held-in-conjunction-with-martin-luther-king-jr-day\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T07:00:00","slug":"the-changing-name-of-the-microsoft-event-held-in-conjunction-with-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130121-00\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"The changing name of the Microsoft event held in conjunction with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._Day\"> Martin Luther King, Jr. Day<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpo.gov\/fdsys\/pkg\/BILLS-103hr1933rs\/html\/BILLS-103hr1933rs.htm\"> federal holiday in the United States<\/a> honoring the civil rights leader and formally serving as a day to <a href=\"http:\/\/216.92.59.93\/toa\/codes\/usc\/titles\/TITLE36\/36USC169j.html\"> reflect on the principles of racial equality and nonviolent social change<\/a> and more generally to <a href=\"http:\/\/mlkday.gov\/\"> honor Dr. King&#8217;s legacy through service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> At Microsoft, the day has been recognized with an event whose name is, um, well, the name keeps changing. Here are the names from recent years: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2006: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Event <\/li>\n<li>2007: Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration <\/li>\n<li>2008: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Event <\/li>\n<li>2009: MLK Day Event <\/li>\n<li>2010: Celebration to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. <\/li>\n<li>2011: Martin Luther King Day of Celebration <\/li>\n<li>2012: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration <\/li>\n<li>2013: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration Event <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> I like to think this is done intentionally just to keep people on their toes. <\/p>\n<p> Ironically, although the event &#8220;celebrates diversity and inclusion,&#8221; the email announcing the event inadvertently excludes people with visual impairments because it consists of a giant JPG with no ALT text. <\/p>\n<p> (No dream report from me today. That would be disrespectful to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrhetoric.com\/speeches\/mlkihaveadream.htm\"> the man himself<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday in the United States honoring the civil rights leader and formally serving as a day to reflect on the principles of racial equality and nonviolent social change and more generally to honor Dr. King&#8217;s legacy through service. At Microsoft, the day has been recognized with [&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":[26],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a federal holiday in the United States honoring the civil rights leader and formally serving as a day to reflect on the principles of racial equality and nonviolent social change and more generally to honor Dr. King&#8217;s legacy through service. At Microsoft, the day has been recognized with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","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=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/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=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}