{"id":188,"date":"2014-10-24T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T11:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/?p=188"},"modified":"2017-01-24T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T11:56:04","slug":"sorry-to-any-real-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Sorry to any real readers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none white;\">A few weeks ago I switched on the feature in WordPress that allows users to sign-up for notifications when I write a new post.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none white;\">If you are a real person who signed up, I am very sorry but I am going to turn that feature\u00a0off again.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none white;\">Since turning it\u00a0on I get constantly spammed with bogus sign-ups by clearly made up email accounts. I am not sure what the attack intended is, or what these people hope to gain from this, but it is chewing up storage and cycles to no advantage.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none white;\">If you want notifications you can follow me on twitter at #davefarley77 and I will tweet when there is a new post.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none white;\">Very sorry!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago I switched on the feature in WordPress that allows users to sign-up for notifications when I write a new post. If you are a real person who signed up, I am very sorry but I am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/?p=188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davefarley.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}