{"id":4,"date":"2007-04-21T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-04-21T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T16:41:00","slug":"meet-the-new-blog-same-as-the-old-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Blog. Same as the Old Blog."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fact is, this is kind of a risk for me.  One of the reasons I never went for a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">real<\/span> blog before now was the whole Comments thing; I&#8217;ve seen too many bloggers ranting endlessly in the wilderness,  day after day, the same fat goose-egg of &#8220;Zero Comments&#8221; lurking beneath each post to underscore just how little anyone cares.  People told me I should run a blog, and their arguments were sound&#8211; but I had no desire to advertise my complete and utter irrelevance with an unfilled comments queue.  Nor did I wish to draw attention to my insecurity by explicitly disabling comments.  The ol&#8217; newscrawl was a good compromise:  if people wanted to comment, they could damn well write me an e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>And they bloody well did.  And I&#8217;ve been falling behind in my correspondence ever since.  So now I can either continue to fall behind, or resort to one of those lameass form-letter responses&#8211; or lighten up on the Comments issue, so that folks have an alternate avenue of approach and I can answer the same question once instead of many times.   So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing.  This is the New scrawl.  And I promise to be be every bit as lackadaisical in its upkeep as I was with the other one.<\/p>\n<p>But if I don&#8217;t get any comments, the whole damn thing is liable to come down.  I have a fragile ego.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s up to you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact is, this is kind of a risk for me. One of the reasons I never went for a real blog before now was the whole Comments thing; I&#8217;ve seen too many bloggers ranting endlessly in the wilderness, day after day, the same fat goose-egg of &#8220;Zero Comments&#8221; lurking beneath each post to underscore just [&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-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}