{"id":32381,"date":"2019-09-30T07:09:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T12:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=32381"},"modified":"2019-11-08T12:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T18:54:42","slug":"hard-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/30\/hard-to-swallow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard to Swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the rumors are true. I removed several comments by J. D. Swallow on the grounds that they were promulgating bad science, and at the same time constituted mean attacks against other readers.<\/p>\n<p>The bad science part, I don&#8217;t worry about too much because the loyal (and rational) readers of this blog had been handling that very well.  But JDS&#8217;s personal attacks were too much.<\/p>\n<p>Swallow has been banned, not for the first time, but likely for the last time.<\/p>\n<p>At least we can revel in a bit of nostalgia, remembering the days of the old forums, when Swallows came in flocks instead of just one at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Readers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5044],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8qh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32381"}],"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=32381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32469,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32381\/revisions\/32469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}