{"id":9473,"date":"2011-10-04T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/10\/04\/beyonc-the-giant-metal-chicken-has-a-facebook-page\/"},"modified":"2011-10-04T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T07:00:01","slug":"beyonc-the-giant-metal-chicken-has-a-facebook-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20111004-01\/?p=9473","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc&#233;, the giant metal chicken has a Facebook page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2011\/06\/30\/10181646.aspx\"> 2011 mid-year link clearance<\/a>, I linked to the story <a href=\"http:\/\/thebloggess.com\/2011\/06\/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles\/\"> <i>And that&#8217;s why you should learn to pick your battles<\/i><\/a>. I thought that was the end of the story, but no, it&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving. Beyonc&eacute;, the giant metal chicken <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Beyonce-the-giant-metal-chicken\/245571305466603?filter=1\"> has a Facebook page<\/a>, populated with all sorts of crazy things like pictures of Beyonc&eacute;&#8217;s relatives spotted in the wild (some of them knocking on doors or peeking in windows), a <i>No Soliciting<\/i> sign just for giant metal chickens, and an updated version of the chart of anniversary gifts <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Wedding_anniversary&amp;oldid=436229039#Traditional_and_modern_anniversary_gifts\"> which lists BIG METAL CHICKEN as the modern 15th anniversary present<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my 2011 mid-year link clearance, I linked to the story And that&#8217;s why you should learn to pick your battles. I thought that was the end of the story, but no, it&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving. Beyonc&eacute;, the giant metal chicken has a Facebook page, populated with all sorts of crazy things [&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-9473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>In my 2011 mid-year link clearance, I linked to the story And that&#8217;s why you should learn to pick your battles. I thought that was the end of the story, but no, it&#8217;s the gift that keeps on giving. Beyonc&eacute;, the giant metal chicken has a Facebook page, populated with all sorts of crazy things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473","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=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/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=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}