{"id":94955,"date":"2016-12-16T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=94955"},"modified":"2019-03-13T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:34:55","slug":"20161216-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20161216-00\/?p=94955","title":{"rendered":"My colleague who thought he held the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve written about my colleague Danny <a HREF=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20161004-00\/?p=94445\">before<\/a>. He&#8217;s an accomplished skier, and one of the things he maintained was a tradition of going skiing at least once every month. He jokingly claimed that he held the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing. <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/life\/outdoors\/snow-obsessed-danny-miller-has-skied-every-month-since-1993\/\">A recent profile in the <i>Seattle Times<\/i><\/a> points out that this is a tradition he has been continuing for 23 years. <\/p>\n<p>As the article notes, Danny thought he was the only person with such an unusual streak, until he discovered <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.turns-all-year.com\/\">an entire community of like-minded skiers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>As the article notes, whether he holds the unofficial record for consecutive months of skiing is not really the point, because every skier sets their own criterion for what counts as a &#8220;day of skiing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>As far as I&#8217;m concerned, he holds the record. Not that it really matters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He stumbled upon an entire community of like-minded skiers.<\/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-94955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>He stumbled upon an entire community of like-minded skiers.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94955","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=94955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94955\/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=94955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}