{"id":2685,"date":"2017-04-27T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:34:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:34:07","slug":"link-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/?p=2685","title":{"rendered":"Link Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Computers never cease to amaze me, not always in good ways.\u00a0 This morning I found a comment on an old post in this blog (so old, that comments to it won&#8217;t be posted)\u00a0 and pulled up the post to check its original date.\u00a0 It was on horsemanship with respect to fighting on horseback.\u00a0 While reading back through it, I checked the links&#8230;one of which led not to a slow-motion video of a horse doing a flying a change of leads, but to a steamy sex site.\u00a0 OOPS.\u00a0 That link has been removed.\u00a0 I checked the other links.\u00a0 One was dead as concrete, so I hunted up another example of what needed to be shown, just in case anyone else stumbled across that post.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard the saying, that nothing ever on the Internet really disappears&#8230;your worst errors can always be pulled up to haunt you&#8230;but clearly links can turn into links to somewhere else, or just go 404-page-not-found on you.<\/p>\n<p>If any of you find bad links, defined as &#8220;not showing what I intended the link to show&#8221; please let me know so I can remove or replace them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computers never cease to amaze me, not always in good ways.\u00a0 This morning I found a comment on an old post in this blog (so old, that comments to it won&#8217;t be posted)\u00a0 and pulled up the post to check its original date.\u00a0 It was on horsemanship with respect to fighting on horseback.\u00a0 While reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2686,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions\/2686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}