{"id":705,"date":"2004-12-28T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2004-12-28T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=705"},"modified":"2004-12-28T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2004-12-28T19:04:24","slug":"privacy_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"Privacy, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A word about my linking policy.  Sometimes I link to sites that require registration, most notably the New York Times.  I agree that site registration is an odious practice that raises privacy issues and inhibits the free flow of information.  Whenever possible, I try to link to websites that don&#8217;t require registration.  However, sometimes I find something interesting on one of the sites that require registration.  You have a few options in this situation.  You can register with the site or simply skip the article.  Or you can use something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">BugMeNot<\/a>, which provides usernames and passwords for registration-only sites.  If you have problems accessing a link, send me an e-mail and I&#8217;ll try to help.  And, of course, if you have a link that you&#8217;d like me to consider posting, send that as well.<br \/>\nMy brother and I wimped out on our LOTR marathon.  Instead, we&#8217;ve been doing one chapter each day.  Tonight, I think we&#8217;ll get to the third (and longest) chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word about my linking policy. Sometimes I link to sites that require registration, most notably the New York Times. I agree that site registration is an odious practice that raises privacy issues and inhibits the free flow of information. Whenever possible, I try to link to websites that don&#8217;t require registration. However, sometimes I <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=705' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-bn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}