{"id":3,"date":"2005-04-17T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-17T04:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/?p=3"},"modified":"2007-10-07T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T10:49:05","slug":"3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2005\/04\/17\/3\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications for CLOSE THAT WINDOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- UnMarkedDown_2_01132526243--><\/p>\n<p>Do you have what it takes to win the games that is sweeping the world?  Could you be a contestant on <a href=\"\/oddthinking\/?p=1\"><em>Close That Window<\/em><\/a> and win big cash prizes?<\/p>\n<p>Submit your application now.<\/p>\n<p>Part i)<\/p>\n<p>Explain, in 25 words or less, how to close the window below. <\/p>\n<p>The application in Nero StartSmart, supplied free with a number of CD and DVD recorders. It automatically pops-up when you insert a blank CD or DVD into the drive.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/oddthinking\/images\/Q-Nero.gif\" alt=\"Nero StartSmart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Close That Window!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Part ii)<\/p>\n<p>Suggest a more appropriate name for the product than &#8220;StartSmart&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Please note: If the judges are unable to select a winner, applicants may be asked to write an essay comparing and contrasting the acts of closing a window and powering off a computer, and explaining why a user might be nervous about selecting the Shut Down icon to close a window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have what it takes to win the games that is sweeping the world?  Could you be a contestant on <a href=\"\/oddthinking\/?p=1\"><em>Close That Window<\/em><\/a> and win big cash prizes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,30,29,25,34],"tags":[110,109,371],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doubleplus-geek","category-humour","category-influencing-others","category-insufficiently-advanced-technology","category-software-development","tag-close-that-window","tag-gui","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}