{"id":151,"date":"2006-06-01T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T04:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2009-01-03T13:49:34","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T04:49:34","slug":"but-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"But what does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of months I have been the unlucky recipient of a lot of spam. I was fortunate in that up until very recently I seldom received any at all. But my number is up.<br \/>\nSpeaking of numbers, there was an interesting article on Boing Boing talking about mysterious spam blog comments that consisted of a strange comment and then a 5 digit number. (You can read about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/05\/23\/wtf_is_going_on_with.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>Today, I broke the number one rule and actually opened one of the spam messages and was intrigued to find that this is what it said:<\/p>\n<p><em>Discretion is the better part of valour Give Neither Counsel Nor Salt till You Are Asked For It Many are called but few are chosen A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. The bigger the better.<br \/>\nThe pot calls the kettle black. Barking dogs seldom bite<\/p>\n<p>After a storm comes a calm. You can&#8217;t teach a new mouse old clicks. Better bend than break Wise men think alike. Any fool can criticise, condemn and complain and most fools do<br \/>\nWhere there&#8217;s a will, there&#8217;s a relative. Football is a game of two halves The country is in ruins, and there are still mountains and rivers &#8211; japanese proverb It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. A bad penny always turns up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What does it mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last couple of months I have been the unlucky recipient of a lot of spam. I was fortunate in that up until very recently I seldom received any at all. But my number is up. Speaking of numbers, there was an interesting article on Boing Boing talking about mysterious spam blog comments that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}