{"id":105,"date":"2005-02-06T18:45:54","date_gmt":"2005-02-07T00:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=105"},"modified":"2005-02-06T18:45:54","modified_gmt":"2005-02-07T00:45:54","slug":"why-am-i-switching-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Why am I switching to WordPress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two weeks have been filled with the scourge of a new type of spam.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trackback\">Trackback<\/a> spam.  This is where the spammer links to you website with trackback pings.  Unfortunately, with the version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moveabletype.org:>MoveableType<\/a> that we are running here in Hopkins, there is no mass way to delete Trackback spam.  You have to visit each blog entry one at a time.  I know that the newer versions of MoveableType give you the ability to do this, but for education customers, the newer version of MoveableType are not free.  In fact, for our district, it would cost us thousands of dollars to upgrade to the newest versions under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\">Six Apart&#8217;s<\/a> new licensing scheme.<\/p>\n<p>That means one thing:  I&#8217;m switching to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordpress.org\">WordPress<\/a>.  I&#8217;ll be making the switch some time this week.  Keep in mind that this will break my RSS feeds, so you&#8217;ll have to re-subscribe if you are reading my blog via RSS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two weeks have been filled with the scourge of a new type of spam. Trackback spam. This is where the spammer links to you website with trackback pings. Unfortunately, with the version of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggingpodcasting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}