{"id":46,"date":"2005-12-19T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-12-19T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T14:16:16","slug":"the-irony-of-commercialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/2005\/12\/the-irony-of-commercialism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irony of commercialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a spam filter on this blog. That&#8217;s one of the mixed blessings of blogging: once in a while I get bombed with comments like &#8220;Like your page, interesting comments&#8221; and then fifteen links to online casinos, phentermine, cialis and texas holdem. Most of them never see the light of day, thanks to efficient blocking.<br \/>\nThe downside is that once in a while a legitimate post gets trapped too. Usually it&#8217;s transparent enough so that those comments end up in &#8220;purgatory&#8221; and I have to approve them manually (which is why some of you may have experienced a considerable delay before your comments appear on the site), but occasionally, they are sent to &#8220;spam hell&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The irony is that one of the words that trigger this, is &#8220;free&#8221;.<br \/>\nFreedom&#8217;s just another word for something you can buy.<\/p>\n<p>Sad, that&#8217;s what it is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a spam filter on this blog. That&#8217;s one of the mixed blessings of blogging: once in a while I get bombed with comments like &#8220;Like your page, interesting comments&#8221; and then fifteen links to online casinos, phentermine, cialis and texas holdem. Most of them never see the light of day, thanks to efficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oestrem.com\/thingstwice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}