{"id":10294,"date":"2014-04-19T08:38:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T15:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10294"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:39:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T22:39:39","slug":"one-hundred-thousand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10294","title":{"rendered":"One hundred thousand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This month marks an anniversary of sorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This blog about Kootenay Lake and its surroundings is about\u00a0four years old. Since that time, there have been just under seven-hundred postings. To these, readers have added\u00a0about\u00a01600 welcome comments.<\/p>\n<p>Spammers have now passed the hundred thousandth attempt to post commercial solicitations to the blog, none of which has been allowed to appear. Sigh&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/how\/\" target=\"_blank\">Akismet<\/a> describes\u00a0the difference between email spam and comment spam of a blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Email spammers write messages to get your attention. Comment spammers write messages to escape your attention. They want you to believe they are real bloggers, real people, writing real comments, so you\u2019ll approve the comment and publish it on your site.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blog spammers have\u00a0targeted this\u00a0blog with all manner attempts to hawk\u00a0questionable products, not one\u00a0of which has\u00a0anything to do with the\u00a0postings. To mark this dubious anniversary, I offer a spring flower from my yard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10295\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/crocus140416s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This month marks an anniversary of sorts.\u00a0 This blog about Kootenay Lake and its surroundings is about\u00a0four years old. Since that time, there have been just under seven-hundred postings. To these, readers have added\u00a0about\u00a01600 welcome comments. Spammers have now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=10294\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10456,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions\/10456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}