{"id":14644,"date":"2012-12-01T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T02:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2012-12-01T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T02:15:15","slug":"spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/01\/spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

… And I don’t mean the good kind.<\/p>\n

A feature of WordPress blogging software is that you can turn off commenting on old posts, older than a specified number of days. I don’t like doing that because some of the most interesting comments trickle in on some of those old posts. Like this one.<\/p>\n

But, for some reason, old posts are spam magnets, and I’m not talking about the canned meat. I opened up commenting on old posts a while back, and suddenly the spam is rushing like Atlantic Seawater in a New York Subway. So, I’ve re-closed comments on those old posts.<\/p>\n

In the mean time, I deleted a LOT of spam. The spam filter was not catching it. If you are a real person and you think a comment of yours got deleted by accident, let me know.<\/p>\n

Thank you very much, that is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… And I don’t mean the good kind. A feature of WordPress blogging software is that you can turn off commenting on old posts, older than a specified number of days. I don’t like doing that because some of the most interesting comments trickle in on some of those old posts. Like this one. But, … Continue reading Spam<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5fhV1-spam","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}