{"id":3395,"date":"2009-02-18T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T18:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2009-02-18T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T19:35:46","slug":"comment-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/comment-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"RAMH comments status as of 2009-02-18 13:25 EST\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/commentsstatus_update.jpg?resize=153%2C139&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"139\" \/><em><strong>Attention readers: <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">exciting<\/span> news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, folks, the <em>comm<\/em>petition (snort, cackle) is now closed. The winner is Tessa, of <a title=\"Tessa's Nuts &amp; Mutton blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nutsandmutton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nuts &amp; Mutton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And heck, I&#8217;m feeling so expansive right now that I&#8217;ll even toss the pen I use to sign it into the box.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">As you can see from the partial screen capture at the left, <em>Running After My Hat<\/em> has to date received 999 approved comments (including pingbacks).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">For the author of the 1,000th comment, I&#8217;m giving away a prize: a signed copy of my next book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Fire away!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_________________________<\/p>\n<p>TERMS AND CONDITIONS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Void where prohibited by law.<\/li>\n<li>John reserves the right to do things like post-date comments or otherwise shuffle them around if, like, say, a complete stranger on a random drive-through just happens to catch this post and sprays the comment box with text.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;which isn&#8217;t to say he WILL, only that he MAY.<\/li>\n<li>Family of <em>RAMH<\/em> crew members not eligible.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;or, possibly, eligible.<\/li>\n<li>As any regular reader here knows, my &#8220;next book&#8221; is at this time merely a possibility.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s the thought that counts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attention readers: exciting news! Sorry, folks, the commpetition (snort, cackle) is now closed. The winner is Tessa, of Nuts &amp; Mutton. And heck, I&#8217;m feeling so expansive right now that I&#8217;ll even toss the pen I use to sign it into the box. As you can see from the partial screen capture at the left, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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}},"categories":[12,74,37],"tags":[135,1004,1005,1006],"class_list":{"0":"post-3395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-03_runningaftermyhat","7":"category-music","8":"category-onlineworld","9":"tag-contests","10":"tag-comments","11":"tag-prizes","12":"tag-my-next-book","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-SL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}