{"id":6403,"date":"2012-10-04T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/10\/04\/an-unexpected-application-of-negative-numbers-to-gift-giving\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T07:00:01","slug":"an-unexpected-application-of-negative-numbers-to-gift-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20121004-01\/?p=6403\/","title":{"rendered":"An unexpected application of negative numbers to gift-giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A college classmate of mine informed me that one of his colleagues had planned his wedding so far in advance that on his negative-first anniversary (i.e., precisely one year before his anticipated wedding date), he gave <a href=\"http:\/\/marriage.about.com\/od\/1stweddinganniversary\/tp\/1annivtrad.htm\"> paper<\/a> to all of his friends. <\/p>\n<p> Said my classmate, &#8220;It&#8217;s too bad that neither of us had been born on his &minus;<a href=\"http:\/\/marriage.about.com\/od\/50thweddinganniversary\/p\/50anniv.htm\">50th anniversary<\/a>. That would have been more lucrative.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college classmate of mine informed me that one of his colleagues had planned his wedding so far in advance that on his negative-first anniversary (i.e., precisely one year before his anticipated wedding date), he gave paper to all of his friends. Said my classmate, &#8220;It&#8217;s too bad that neither of us had been born [&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-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A college classmate of mine informed me that one of his colleagues had planned his wedding so far in advance that on his negative-first anniversary (i.e., precisely one year before his anticipated wedding date), he gave paper to all of his friends. Said my classmate, &#8220;It&#8217;s too bad that neither of us had been born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/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=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}