{"id":167,"date":"2006-08-12T10:14:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-08-12T10:14:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T14:14:26","slug":"readers-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"Readers write"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2006\/08\/11\/brown\/index.html\">a piece in Salon<\/a> yesterday, which may have drawn more feedback than I saw, since the boilerplate at the foot of the article points to an address I shut down years ago because of the spam. The letters on the site were only about 30% ignorant or nuts, which is pretty good for the internet. None were particularly abusive, which makes a refreshing change after <em>Comment is Free.<\/em> There was one classic paragraph, from&#8221;Anonymous&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>Probably because I&rsquo;m a stupid, boorish American but this article didn&rsquo;t clear anything up for me. It only leaves me feeling like there is no solution to any of this and if so, what&rsquo;s the point of trying to understand? What a depressing and hopeless piece.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a piece in Salon yesterday, which may have drawn more feedback than I saw, since the boilerplate at the foot of the article points to an address I shut down years ago because of the spam. The letters &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}