{"id":13381,"date":"2011-12-30T22:52:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T22:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13381"},"modified":"2011-12-30T22:57:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T22:57:52","slug":"comments-yet-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/30\/comments-yet-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments &#8211; yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I visited my father, who has been unwell, today and returned to moderate 21 comments on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>I have rarely deleted so many - and apart from one gratuitously neoliberal \/ neocon comment from a person who is invariably deleted anyway have commented why in each case.<\/p>\n<p>Might I remind those commenting though of some basic rules, all already in the comments policy? First, do not be gratuitously offensive, especially to other commentators.<\/p>\n<p>Second, being offensive about anyone with left of centre views is a sure way to be deleted unless backed by argument - and that seemed beyond several commentators today. <\/p>\n<p>Third, as I know (and acknowledge I have not always got right) issues like mental ill health need handling with care.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth, calling me a communist because you claim to be a Guernsey politician (which claim is, I hope, bogus for the sake of Guernsey) is not a way to prove your credibility.<\/p>\n<p>So please note the comments policy because I will not always be so generous in noting reasons for rejecting comments. I will just delete them and reserve this space for those who can debate rather more maturely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited my father, who has been unwell, today and returned to moderate 21 comments on this blog. I have rarely deleted so many &#8211;<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/12\/30\/comments-yet-again-2\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}