{"id":1736,"date":"2010-05-20T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/05\/the_spammer_near_you\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:52:26","slug":"the_spammer_near_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/05\/the_spammer_near_you.html","title":{"rendered":"The spammer near you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who writes a blog that allows comments gets pseudo-comments, otherwise known as spam. Why do spammers want to be published on blogs? I have no idea. As my grandmother used to say, when asked, for instance, how electricity works, &#8220;It&#8217;s a mystery.&#8221; (The Catholic imagination leaves little room for scientific inquiry.)<\/p>\n<p>The language of spammers could be called English as a non-language. No matter how brief a comment, it can be counted on to contain a grammatical error. Its chief characteristic, however, is vagueness. When in doubt, I check the email address. It&#8217;s never real.<\/p>\n<p>Below, a sample of comments taken from a typical day. For every comment I publish, there are six or seven I don&#8217;t, sometimes more, from spammers. The green circle on the left indicates a published observation. The gold triangle signifies one waiting to join it. In these cases, the wait will last forever. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spamshot.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/spamshot.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"309\" width=\"503\" \/>Anybody know the motive behind this unending quest to penetrate an art blog? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who writes a blog that allows comments gets pseudo-comments, otherwise known as spam. Why do spammers want to be published on blogs? I have no idea. As my grandmother used to say, when asked, for instance, how electricity works, &#8220;It&#8217;s a mystery.&#8221; (The Catholic imagination leaves little room for scientific inquiry.) The language of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}