{"id":330,"date":"2004-06-05T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2004-06-05T17:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/no-comment\/"},"modified":"2006-03-03T14:57:37","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T21:57:37","slug":"no-comment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/edgewiseblog\/no-comment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"No Comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I set this blog up, I <\/p>\n<p>imagined some who visited would have something to say about it. I knew that not everyone would agree with me (most polls and surveys <\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>ready for disagreement, even some flames; still, I tried to make commenting easy and to encourage it.<\/p>\n<p>I never anticipated <\/p>\n<p><b>&#8221;blog spammers&#8221;<\/b>. These low-lifes post &#8216;comments&#8217; on blogs that link to porn or sell products for penis enlargement or <\/p>\n<p>Viagra; recently, there has been a spate of debt-consolidation postings. In truth, these postings are few but more than once a day on the <\/p>\n<p>half a dozen blogs I manage. I&#8217;m tired of dealing with these pests, <strike>so I&#8217;m shutting down comments. To those who legitimately <\/p>\n<p>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 <\/p>\n<p>comments (with some limitations).<\/strike> <span class=\"mine\">[Update: I&#8217;m taking comments again and still getting hit by the damn <\/p>\n<p>spammers, who feebly disguise their spam with comments about &#8216;what a wonderful blog this is.&#8217; Screw them all.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To the <\/p>\n<p>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 \n\nBlog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgewbush.com\/blog\/\">GeorgeWBush.com :: Official Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>peace, <span \n\nclass=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/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\/edgewiseblog\/no-comment-2\/\" 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edgewiseblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}