{"id":9863,"date":"2011-08-18T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/08\/18\/ow-im-too-safe\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T07:00:01","slug":"ow-im-too-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110818-01\/?p=9863","title":{"rendered":"Ow, I&#039;m too safe!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends is a geek, and, naturally, fully researches everything he does, from cement pouring to bicycle parts, perhaps a bit obsessively. He made sure to get five-point restraints for his children&#8217;s car seats, for example. And he naturally tightens the belts snugly when putting his children in the car.\n At one point, as he was strapping <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2009\/04\/27\/9570320.aspx\"> his daughter<\/a> in, she complained, &#8220;Ow! I&#8217;m too safe!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Because as far as she was concerned, &#8220;being safe&#8221; was a synonym for &#8220;having a tight seat belt.&#8221; I leave you to figure out how she came to this conclusion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends is a geek, and, naturally, fully researches everything he does, from cement pouring to bicycle parts, perhaps a bit obsessively. He made sure to get five-point restraints for his children&#8217;s car seats, for example. And he naturally tightens the belts snugly when putting his children in the car. At one point, [&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-9863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>One of my friends is a geek, and, naturally, fully researches everything he does, from cement pouring to bicycle parts, perhaps a bit obsessively. He made sure to get five-point restraints for his children&#8217;s car seats, for example. And he naturally tightens the belts snugly when putting his children in the car. At one point, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863","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=9863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9863\/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=9863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}