{"id":974,"date":"2005-07-26T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2005-07-27T00:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/carnival_of_the_1"},"modified":"2005-07-26T20:47:06","modified_gmt":"2005-07-27T00:47:06","slug":"carnival_of_the_1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of the Vanities #149"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of interesting writing this week in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pratie.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/carnival-of-vanities-149.html\">Carnival of the Vanities #149<\/a>,&nbsp; which is being hosted by Melinama at&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/pratie.blogspot.com\/\">Pratie<br \/>\nPlace<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Melinama bills Pratie Place as: &quot;Reflections and news, primarily from the previous millennium. Because I can&#8217;t keep up.&quot;&nbsp; This would seem to be true as she seems to resist hosting carnival entries that she doesn&#8217;t agree with.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me that when you agree to host a carnival, you need to be a host, not an editor, but that&#8217;s just my take on it. A carnival host gets the benefit of a lot of new traffic and it seems unkind to bite the hands that feed you. <\/p>\n<p>Visit the Carnival of the Vanities, see a lot of interesting writing, and take time to read Melinama&#8217;s posts on her recent visits to small towns in Maine. There is something there for everyone,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of interesting writing this week in the Carnival of the Vanities #149,&nbsp; which is being hosted by Melinama at&nbsp; Pratie Place Melinama bills Pratie Place as: &quot;Reflections and news, primarily from the previous millennium. Because I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=974\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1794],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-fI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}