{"id":4695,"date":"2008-02-20T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ben_smith_comments_on_the_comments_on_his_blog\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:07:00","slug":"ben_smith_comments_on_the_comments_on_his_blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4695","title":{"rendered":"Ben Smith Comments on the comments on his Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to take advantage of a (relatively) slow news day to make a quick point about comments. They are, ideally, ideas, not rants; content, not therapy. They&#8217;re at their best when you&#8217;re sharing something somebody else might want to read \u201d\u201d a fact, an opinion, an argument.<\/p>\n<p><i>A good reminder. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0208\/Commenting_comment.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to take advantage of a (relatively) slow news day to make a quick point about comments. They are, ideally, ideas, not rants; content, not therapy. They&#8217;re at their best when you&#8217;re sharing something somebody else might want<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4695\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}