{"id":407,"date":"2017-10-26T20:54:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hebulstrode.co.uk\/?p=407"},"modified":"2017-10-26T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:54:35","slug":"tsunami-of-spam-blog-comments-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hebulstrode.co.uk\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Tsunami of Spam: Blog Comments Disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone.<\/p>\n<p>If you have left a comment during the past week, I&#8217;m afraid that I won&#8217;t have seen it. After not logging on for a handful of days I have been overwhelmed by a tidal wave of spam: 687 &#8216;comments&#8217; in all. I don&#8217;t have enough hours in the day to sift through this, so from now on I will automatically be deleting all comments on my blog, operating on the assumption that almost all will be spam. 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