{"id":15581,"date":"2014-10-30T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T19:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15581"},"modified":"2014-11-06T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T00:13:48","slug":"comments-are-open-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=15581","title":{"rendered":"Comments Are Open (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Paul&#8217;s Thing Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Comments are open again, which means you can weigh in\u00a0on posts here at Paul&#8217;s Thing without having to register and log in.<\/p>\n<p>I started requiring commenters to register and log in a few years ago after comment spammers discovered this blog. That got rid of the spammers, but it discouraged discussion from real readers. I&#8217;ve installed some anti-spam plugins, which I hope will fend off most of the comment spam. If any gets through, I&#8217;ll manually delete it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t yet know how effective these plugins are. There&#8217;s a possibility they might block some of your comments, especially if you write\u00a0about things like discount sunglasses or boner pills. Stay away from subjects like that and you should be fine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Paul&#8217;s Thing Readers, Comments are open again, which means you can weigh in\u00a0on posts here at Paul&#8217;s Thing without having to register and log in. I started requiring commenters to register and log in a few years ago after comment spammers discovered this blog. That got rid of the spammers, but it discouraged discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15584,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions\/15584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}