{"id":12319,"date":"2011-08-20T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T22:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=12319"},"modified":"2011-08-21T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T02:42:15","slug":"off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/20\/off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"off the air&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Recently, an attempt was made to use the comment section of this blog to advance a personal agenda and engage me in a dialogue about it, presumably based on the title of my last post &#8211; &quot;ask your doctor&#8230;&quot; Obviously, that title had to do with the government report on Direct to Consumer advertising, not the literal request to be asked questions about things I know nothing about. I deleted the comment. Soon came another comment accusing me of censorship [&quot;Censorship rules! Not.&quot;]. Rather than accept the invitation for that kind of insistent dialog where I represent the other side of some argument I haven&#8217;t introduced and know nothing about, I&#8217;ve decided to censor myself instead by shutting this blog down.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, an attempt was made to use the comment section of this blog to advance a personal agenda and engage me in a dialogue about it, presumably based on the title of my last post &#8211; &quot;ask your doctor&#8230;&quot; Obviously, that title had to do with the government report on Direct to Consumer advertising, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12319"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12372,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12319\/revisions\/12372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}