{"id":808,"date":"2008-02-14T04:40:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexsuze.com\/?p=808"},"modified":"2008-02-14T04:40:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:40:41","slug":"i-just-couldn%e2%80%99t-resist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=808","title":{"rendered":"I Just Couldn&#8217;t Resist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"300\" src=\"\/images\/unionflag.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"AlexSuze.com\" height=\"150\" style=\"width: 300px; height: 150px\" title=\"AlexSuze.com\" \/>Yesterday afternoon I registered with BritBlogs.<\/p>\n<p>Again.<\/p>\n<p>The last time we tried, over a year ago, they rejected us because they couldn&#8217;t verify if we were British. Well, I&#8217;ve registered from a British IP so I think they should be gather from that that I&#8217;m not located in darkest Peru.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m waiting for the response from the BritBlog team, will they decide we&#8217;re British enough this time?<\/p>\n<p>I can understand them wanting to promote British blogs, there is a place for global listings and listings within a geographical area. After all we share a culture, a Britishness, that is unique to these islands. Funny thing is they have an ex-pat section, so how do they verify that those bloggers are real ex-pats and not someone pretending to be a Britain abroad?<\/p>\n<p>At the time of our last rejection I queried how I could prove that we are British. I never received a response.<\/p>\n<p>Tic-toc, tic-toc \u2026 we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday afternoon I registered with BritBlogs. Again. The last time we tried, over a year ago, they rejected us because they couldn&#8217;t verify if we were British. Well, I&#8217;ve registered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=808\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}