{"id":245,"date":"2010-11-16T04:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-11-16T04:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T10:01:24","slug":"restore-your-sanity-by-blocking-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/restore-your-sanity-by-blocking-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Restore your sanity by blocking comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I read a comment on a blog, new site or YouTube that was anything but blather. The vast majority of comments are a total waste of space and time.<\/p>\n<p>I was about to build my own comment blocker extension for Chrome, but luckily I cam across an existing extension, <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/extensions\/detail\/lhkjhnbkeibefoijmacgnnkddlkkmjaf\">CommentBlocker<\/a>, which does everything I need it to.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/161674\/\">version for Firefox<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<p>Ahhhh, that feels better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember the last time I read a comment on a blog, new site or YouTube that was anything but blather. The vast majority of comments are a total waste of space and time. I was about to build my own comment blocker extension for Chrome, but luckily I cam across an existing extension, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[146,145,147,148],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-block-comments","tag-commentblocker","tag-disable-comments","tag-no-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rowanhanna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}