{"id":73,"date":"2006-02-10T18:04:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T23:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/wordpress\/73"},"modified":"2006-02-10T18:04:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T23:04:34","slug":"avast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/73","title":{"rendered":"Avast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Tomorrow <a href=\"http:\/\/thismodernworld.com\/2654\"> has found an utterly charming way of dealing with comment thread bilge: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also, a comments week rule arising from the Colbert thread: anyone who suggests that the host&iacute;s choice of a given topic is too frivilous when there are Serious Issues in the World To Be Solved will have their comment run through a pirate translator and reposted.<\/p>\n<p>Sample comment: How can you waste time writing about your new book when there are children starving in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Sample comment run through pirate translator: Yarrr! How can ye waste time writin&iacute; about your new book when thar be sprogs starvin&iacute; in t&iacute; world?<\/p>\n<p>Like that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah. Like that. But more so. I want people to feel free to speak their mind here, but you need to be engaged in what you&#8217;re talking about, even if I regard it as just a lot of mindless idiotic babble. Morons on the other hand, who just want to flit around from web site to web site posting crap in random comment threads like a bunch of bored street taggers can expect to be treated in my little corner of the world wide web as idle sport for carefree ridicule. It&#8217;s just the kinda guy I am. Hi Brian. Arr.<\/p>\n<p>Spammers will be shot on sight, deep fried, rolled in sunflower seeds and fed to the birds.<\/p>\n<p>Policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Tomorrow has found an utterly charming way of dealing with comment thread bilge: Also, a comments week rule arising from the Colbert thread: anyone who suggests that the host&iacute;s choice of a given topic is too frivilous when there are Serious Issues in the World To Be Solved will have their comment run through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}