{"id":4274,"date":"2012-12-20T10:12:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:12:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T15:12:58","slug":"facebook-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4274","title":{"rendered":"Facebook likes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4275\" alt=\"facebook_like_button_big\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/facebook_like_button_big.jpeg\" width=\"176\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/facebook_like_button_big.jpeg 490w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/facebook_like_button_big-300x133.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/>I use a simple WordPress plugin, called &#8220;Simple Facebook Connect&#8221;, to automatically post my blog posts to Facebook. The plugin also provides a Like button for my posts. Recently, I noticed that a number of my posts acquired a fair number of Likes from apparent strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it became clear to me that the plugin is cheating. After exchanging a series of comments on Facebook in response to one of my blog posts, I noticed that every time a comment was added, the number of Likes went up by one. So no, I am not nearly as popular as I previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Blogs are meant to be written, not read.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4274' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a simple WordPress plugin, called &#8220;Simple Facebook Connect&#8221;, to automatically post my blog posts to Facebook. The plugin also provides a Like button for my posts. Recently, I noticed that a number of my posts acquired a fair number of Likes from apparent strangers. Today, it became clear to me that the plugin <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4274' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-personal","category-6-id","category-35-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}