{"id":1236,"date":"2004-06-05T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T18:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/no-comment\/"},"modified":"2004-06-05T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2004-06-05T18:56:13","slug":"no-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"No Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I set this blog up, I imagined some who visited would have something to say about it. I knew that not everyone would agree with me (most polls and surveys indicate few people agree with me). That&#8217;s OK. <b>To paraphrase Mo Udall, if everyone agrees with you, you&#8217;re wrong.<\/b> So, I was ready for disagreement, even some flames; still, I tried to make commenting easy and to encourage it.<\/p>\n<p>I never anticipated <b>&#8221;blog spammers&#8221;<\/b>. These <b><i>low-lifes<\/i><\/b> post &#8216;comments&#8217; on blogs that link to porn or sell products for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/blog\/\">penis enlargement<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/blog\/\">Viagra<\/a>; recently, there has been a spate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/blog\/\">debt-consolidation postings<\/a>. In truth, these postings are few but more than once a day on the half a dozen blogs I manage. I&#8217;m tired of dealing with these pests, so I&#8217;m shutting down comments. To those who legitimately wish to comment, I&#8217;m sorry. You can still send me email (which, of course, the spammers do); if you want me to, I will post your comments (with some limitations).<\/p>\n<p>To the spammers &#8212; oh, what the hell, they couldn&#8217;t care less what harm they do. To them, I recommend <a title=\"GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/blog\/\">GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>peace, mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I set this blog up, I imagined some who visited would have something to say about it. I knew that not everyone would agree with me (most polls and surveys indicate few people agree with me). That&#8217;s OK. To paraphrase Mo Udall, if everyone agrees with you, you&#8217;re wrong. So, I was ready for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/no-comment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Comment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}