{"id":1334,"date":"2018-12-01T11:56:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T17:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T17:56:47","slug":"unwelcome-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/12\/01\/unwelcome-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwelcome Subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a few months now I&#8217;ve had a flurry of &#8220;rail fans&#8221; registering with the <em>Post Notifications<\/em> sign-up that shows in the sidebar at right.\u00a0 Virtually every day I get anywhere from one to a dozen new folks who can&#8217;t wait to be notified of new posts.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty obvious they&#8217;re just some sort of spammers, or otherwise have nefarious intent.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve tried several ideas aimed at thwarting this, but they obviously haven&#8217;t worked, and the problem just increases as time goes by.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, I&#8217;ve deleted the post notification sign-up on the sidebar.\u00a0 It will still show up for folks that wish to leave a comment on a post as a checkbox on the comment form.\u00a0 Or in your comment you can indicate that you&#8217;d like to subscribe and I can manually add you.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how this goes for awhile.\u00a0 Hopefully it&#8217;ll solve the problem, though I wish I didn&#8217;t have to make it harder for folks by doing this.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m just tired of checking the blog two or three times a day in order to delete these characters.<\/p>\n<p>To my friends and followers out there, I hope you have some wonderful family time during this holiday season, and I appreciate very much your interest in this humble blogging adventure.<\/p>\n<p><em>-Jack<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For quite a few months now I&#8217;ve had a flurry of &#8220;rail fans&#8221; registering with the Post Notifications sign-up that shows in the sidebar at right.\u00a0 Virtually every day I get anywhere from one to a dozen new folks who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/2018\/12\/01\/unwelcome-subscribers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lacentralrr.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}