{"id":10406,"date":"2011-08-28T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/28\/why-i-dont-allow-comments\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T14:44:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T14:44:24","slug":"why-i-dont-allow-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/28\/why-i-dont-allow-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Don&#8217;t Allow Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why don&#39;t I allow comments on most of my posts?&#0160; Part of the reason is the &#39;high level&#39; of discussion that tends to occur in threads attached to posts that address &#39;hot button&#39; issues.&#0160; A good example is the &#39;commentary&#39; elicited by <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousidea.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/why-sexism-is-obsolete.html\" target=\"_self\">Why Sexism is Obsolete<\/a> over at Victor Reppert&#39;s place.&#0160; Not an edifying spectacle.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Curiously, the lack of comments does not seem adversely to affect my traffic.&#0160; In fact, I have e-mails from people who positively like the paucity of comments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why don&#39;t I allow comments on most of my posts?&#0160; Part of the reason is the &#39;high level&#39; of discussion that tends to occur in threads attached to posts that address &#39;hot button&#39; issues.&#0160; A good example is the &#39;commentary&#39; elicited by Why Sexism is Obsolete over at Victor Reppert&#39;s place.&#0160; Not an edifying spectacle.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/08\/28\/why-i-dont-allow-comments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why I Don&#8217;t Allow Comments&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}