{"id":854,"date":"2006-11-22T16:07:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/22\/the_indie_frees_its_comments_pages"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:08:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:08:35","slug":"the_indie_frees_its_comments_pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/11\/22\/the_indie_frees_its_comments_pages","title":{"rendered":"The Indie frees its comments pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2006\/11\/21\/swarthies_funded_yasmin_unhappy.php\">Harry&#39;s Place<\/a>, it appears that the <em>Independent<\/em> has abandoned its policy of charging people to read its comments pages online.  Personally I wonder if this was because most of the columnists worth reading abandoned the paper precisely because their writings&#39; not being available to freely read online gave them less of an audience.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now that the witterings of anti-religious pseudo-liberals like Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/04\/26\/on_will_cummins_this_way_lies\">Will Cummins<\/a>&#39; publicist Dominic Lawson are available free to view, it will be easier for me to link them and debunk them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Harry&#39;s Place, it appears that the Independent has abandoned its policy of charging people to read its comments pages online. Personally I wonder if this was because most of the columnists worth reading&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42211,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/42211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}