{"id":169,"date":"2006-03-03T11:02:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T09:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=169"},"modified":"2006-03-03T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T09:02:31","slug":"broken-blog-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Broken blog competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are now two local blog competitions. There&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sablogawards.com\/\">SA Blog Awards<\/a>, and now News24&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/promotions\/blogoff\/\">Great South African Blog-off<\/a>. Unfortunately both are hardly stellar examples of technical competence. <\/p>\n<p>SA Blog Awards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sablogawards.com\/2006\/03\/attend_the_awar.html\">permalink<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sablogawards.com\/2006\/03\/attend_the_awar.html#comments\">comments<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sablogawards.com\/2006\/03\/attend_the_awar.html#trackback\">trackback<\/a> links all break, so it hardly qualifies as a blog itself. Subscribing to the blogs feed is not worth it, as the permalink returned is broken. But at least you can read it by going directly to the site.<\/p>\n<p>News 24&#8217;s version is completely broken in Linux (it apparently works on Windows Firefox), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/promotions\/blogoff\/entry.html\">enter page<\/a> just returns the useful <em>404 Object Not Found<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now two local blog competitions. There&#8217;s the SA Blog Awards, and now News24&#8217;s Great South African Blog-off. Unfortunately both are hardly stellar examples of technical competence. SA Blog Awards permalink, comments and trackback links all break, so it hardly qualifies as a blog itself. Subscribing to the blogs feed is not worth it,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=169\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Broken blog competitions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earth-literature","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}