{"id":19,"date":"2008-12-30T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/2008-12-30\/comments"},"modified":"2008-12-30T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T16:37:00","slug":"comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/30\/comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Tanner suggested that I am short-selling myself by not allowing others to add comments to my blog.<\/p>\n<p>Since I started this blog as an experiment to familiarize myself with different types of content management software, it never occurred to me to open it up (in fact, I was surprised that anyone actually read it at all).  My initial installation was &#8220;locked down&#8221; to reduce the potential avenues for spam.<\/p>\n<p>So today, I turned on comments.  It required a little bit of SQL tinkering to enable comments on past posts&#8230; I hope I did not mess anything up.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Tanner suggested that I am short-selling myself by not allowing others to add comments to my blog. Since I started this blog as an experiment to familiarize myself with different types of content management software, it never occurred to me to open it up (in fact, I was surprised that anyone actually read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}