{"id":65,"date":"2007-05-07T01:36:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=65"},"modified":"2007-05-07T01:36:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T23:36:15","slug":"david-bullard-causes-a-blog-site-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"David Bullard causes a &#8216;blog site&#8217; storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.co.za\/Columnists\/DavidBullard\/Article.aspx?id=452352\">David Bullard&#8217;s rant<\/a> in the Sunday Times caused a storm of protest from bloggers. See, for example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vincentmaher.com\/mit\/?p=347\">Vincent Maher<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicharalambous.com\/2007\/05\/06\/david-bullard-attacks-blogs\/\">Nic Haralambous<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unodewaal.com\/2007\/05\/06\/david-bullard-plays-air-opinion\/\">Uno De Waal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=162\">Marius Bock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredgecko.net\/2007\/05\/ill-just-write-some-drivel-then-bullard\/\">Paul Jacobson <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ericedelstein.com\/2007\/05\/06\/does-david-bullard-have-a-point\/\">Eric Edelsein<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/coda.co.za\/archive\/20070506\/23:36:22\">Coda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/justinhartman.com\/2007\/05\/07\/is-david-bullard-an-utter-wanker\/\">Justin Hartman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(UPDATE &#8211; see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amatomu.com\/tag\/david%20bullard\">Amatomu<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/afrigator.com\/search.php?rss_query=Bullard\">Afrigator<\/a> results for more)<\/p>\n<p>Being a bit otherwise, I have a slightly different take. I&#8217;m not sure most bloggers responding really understand his column. Of course what he writes is crap &#8211; it&#8217;s crap every week, and it&#8217;s not meant to be serious! He&#8217;s there to be controversial and funny. <\/p>\n<p>For example, when discussing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundaytimes.co.za\/Columnists\/DavidBullard\/Article.aspx?id=448206\">feast in view of the poor of Maputo<\/a>, he says <em>This was real conspicuous consumption, and you could feel the envy and hatred coming through the fence. That&#8217;s the problem with the poor. Like pit bull terriers, they are unreliable. One minute they&#8217;re licking your face and telling you what a nice car you drive, and the next they have a knife at your throat and want the car keys and the contents of your wallet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Surely that&#8217;s just as insulting? I&#8217;m amused by some bloggers saying things along the lines of <em>I respected him before, but now&#8230;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Either you&#8217;re insulted every week, and think he writes drivel, or you find him funny. By only getting annoyed when he attacks something close to home, bloggers are falling right into his trap, and providing him some choice quotes for next week&#8217;s column.<\/p>\n<p>Which, for a change, I look forward to reading \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/david+bullard\" rel=\"tag\">David Bullard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Bullard&#8217;s rant in the Sunday Times caused a storm of protest from bloggers. See, for example: Vincent Maher Nic Haralambous Uno De Waal Marius Bock Paul Jacobson Eric Edelsein Coda Justin Hartman (UPDATE &#8211; see the Amatomu and Afrigator results for more) Being a bit otherwise, I have a slightly different take. I&#8217;m not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=65\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Bullard causes a &#8216;blog site&#8217; storm<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","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=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}