{"id":5598,"date":"2012-05-24T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2012-05-24T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T02:20:07","slug":"link-baiting-at-its-worst-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/05\/link-baiting-at-its-worst-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Link Baiting At Its Worst (Best?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keen to get a boost from the popularity of the Australian version of the singing contest, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Voice_(Australia)\">The Voice<\/a> &#8211; on which British performer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seal_(musician)\">Seal<\/a> is a judge, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/\">The Age<\/a> came up with this headline for a story:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Of course, when you click on that link, you get:<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/environment\/animals\/lost-seal-slips-into-town-in-fishy-tale-20120524-1z67u.html\">Lost Seal Slips Into Town In Fishy Tale<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>Link baiting much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keen to get a boost from the popularity of the Australian version of the singing contest, The Voice &#8211; on which British performer Seal is a judge, The Age came up with this headline for a story: Of course, when you click on that link, you get: Lost Seal Slips Into Town In Fishy Tale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[219,530,536],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-fail","tag-theage","tag-thevoiceau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}