{"id":24,"date":"2010-03-14T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2010-07-26T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T05:46:08","slug":"anonymous-commenting-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/anonymous-commenting-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Commenting Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/anonymous-comments.jpg\" alt=\"who gave me this dang thing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/anonymous-comments.jpg\" alt=\"who gave me this dang thing\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, commenters, but the signal-to-noise ratio of anonymous comments was approaching zero.  \ud83d\ude41  It was getting to the point I almost rejected some real though short comments because they were looking like the spam comments I was getting &#8211; I apologize if I dinged a real person by accident.  But when you don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s sending a gift, you never know what&#8217;s inside the wrapper.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur  <\/p>\n<p>Pictured is my cousin Bryan Norman, receiving a joke gift of a mailbox at last Christmas&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/\">White Elephant gift exchange<\/a> &#8211; though I dispute the Wikipedia article, I lived 38 years in the Southeastern United States and never heard it called a &#8220;Yankee swap&#8221; &#8211; always &#8220;White Elephant&#8221; or the less-politically-correct &#8220;Chinese Christmas&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, commenters, but the signal-to-noise ratio of anonymous comments was approaching zero. \ud83d\ude41 It was getting to the point I almost rejected some real though short comments because they were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,3],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-spam-investigations","tag-webworks","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}