{"id":319,"date":"2005-03-11T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=319"},"modified":"2005-03-11T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2005-03-12T01:00:22","slug":"no-more-trackbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"No More Trackbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so tired of trackback spam. The online poker sites are the worst of the lot. A trackback is intended to say that someone has linked to my weblog. They have written something and put a link in their blog referencing my blog. The trackback then shows up as a comment on my site giving a link back to the person who referenced me. The trackback spam is just bogus trackbacks intended to put a link in the comments for a particular post back to the online poker site. Well, I&#8217;ve been getting anywhere from five to ten of these trackback spam messages a day. I&#8217;m tired of deleting them. So, for the time being, I&#8217;ve turned off trackbacks. Sometime in the future when the online gambling sites have forgotten about me, I&#8217;ll turn them back on (maybe). Why is it that these places take something good and turn it into crap?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so tired of trackback spam. The online poker sites are the worst of the lot. A trackback is intended to say that someone has linked to my weblog. They have written something and put a link in their blog referencing my blog. The trackback then shows up as a comment on my site giving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No More Trackbacks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-59","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}