{"id":238,"date":"2004-06-07T20:17:37","date_gmt":"2004-06-07T10:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2004-06-07T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2004-06-07T10:17:37","slug":"exciting-new-world-of-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/07\/exciting-new-world-of-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"exciting new world of comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

comments are back!<\/strong> well, until the spam is unmanagable, and then i’ll have to go and moderate everything. At least it’s better than MT though, where it just accepts everything and you have to go hunting for bad things.<\/p>\n

I like<\/strong> WordPress!<\/p>\n

I’ve started to use Straw again, a cool News aggregator for GNOME<\/a> (written in Python<\/a> from memory). Basically to try and keep up with various blogs\/dev blogs around the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

comments are back! well, until the spam is unmanagable, and then i’ll have to go and moderate everything. At least it’s better than MT though, where it just accepts everything and you have to go hunting for bad things. I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-website"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-3Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":604,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/02\/howard-what-the-blogs-are-saying-the-nation-breaking-news-247-newscomau\/","url_meta":{"origin":238,"position":0},"title":"Howard: What the blogs are saying – The Nation – Breaking News 24\/7 – NEWS.com.au","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2006-03-02","format":false,"excerpt":"Howard: What the blogs are saying I'm not a Howard fan. 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