{"id":1686,"date":"2013-10-05T11:22:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2017-09-08T19:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T19:38:48","slug":"not-a-blog-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/10\/05\/not-a-blog-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Not A Blog Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have quite a few new people visiting here, which reminds me that maybe it&#39;s time to lay down the Not A Blog rules again.&nbsp; I have not done that for a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>There aren&#39;t many.<\/p>\n<p>I want no flamewars on this site.&nbsp; Debate and discussion are fine, name-calling and abuse are not.&nbsp; I ask that you be respectful in your comments, not only of me but of the other posters.<\/p>\n<p>No spam, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>I also ask that commenters STAY ON TOPIC.&nbsp; I do close and lock the comments thread on most of my posts as they get old and discussion dies down, but I usually have three or four posts open at any one time.&nbsp; Please place your comments under the appropriate subject, instead of just adding them to whatever is the most recent post.&nbsp; Football threads are for the discussion of football, not writing.&nbsp; Writing threads are for discussion of writing, not football.&nbsp; If I post about OLD MARS, I welcome discussion of the anthology, anthologies in general, the participating writers, other books about Mars, even SF in general&#8230; but not about the GAME OF THRONES tv show, or the Jets, or how the novel is coming.&nbsp; Political discussion should be restricted to political posts.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to write me a fan letter, send it via email.&nbsp; My address can be found on my website.&nbsp; Don&#39;t post it here.&nbsp; (And, sadly, don&#39;t expect a reply.&nbsp; I am about three thousand emails behind at the moment).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to have quite a few new people visiting here, which reminds me that maybe it&#39;s time to lay down the Not A Blog rules again.&nbsp; I have not done that for a couple of years. There aren&#39;t many. I want no flamewars on this site.&nbsp; Debate and discussion are fine, name-calling and abuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}