{"id":9233,"date":"2011-10-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/10\/31\/my-least-effective-halloween-costume\/"},"modified":"2011-10-31T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T07:00:00","slug":"my-least-effective-halloween-costume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20111031-00\/?p=9233","title":{"rendered":"My least effective Hallowe&#039;en costume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year I decided to dress as a nerd for Hallowe&#8217;en. I took an old pair of glasses with large lenses, &#8220;repaired&#8221; it with some masking tape, and combined it with a plaid dress shirt with a pocket protector and courduroy pants that were too short.\n Nobody at work realized I was wearing a costume.\n The best Hallowe&#8217;en work costume I saw was someone who came dressed as a Christmas tree. Complete with Christmas lights. She had to make sure to stand near an electrical outlet so she could plug herself in.<\/p>\n<p> <b>I wish I had a picture<\/b>: One of my friends spotted somebody at a work Hallowe&#8217;en party dressed as Bill Gates. But not the Bill Gates of today. He was dressed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/photogallery\/0,29307,1630529_1380723,00.html\"> Bill Gates from the arrest photo<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year I decided to dress as a nerd for Hallowe&#8217;en. I took an old pair of glasses with large lenses, &#8220;repaired&#8221; it with some masking tape, and combined it with a plaid dress shirt with a pocket protector and courduroy pants that were too short. Nobody at work realized I was wearing a costume. [&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-9233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One year I decided to dress as a nerd for Hallowe&#8217;en. I took an old pair of glasses with large lenses, &#8220;repaired&#8221; it with some masking tape, and combined it with a plaid dress shirt with a pocket protector and courduroy pants that were too short. Nobody at work realized I was wearing a costume. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233","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=9233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9233\/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=9233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}