Some major bloggers (most prominently Atrios\/Eschaton and Kos) have recently instituted a blogroll purge, eliminating, for the most part, all but the usual suspects.\u00a0 And to add insult to injury, they referred to it in Orwellian fashion as “Blogroll Amnesty Day.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now Kos never saw fit to link me, but I was on Eschaton’s blogroll for years until this wholesale purge, discussed\u00a0 here by skippy,<\/a> here by Jon Swift<\/a>, and again by skippy here, cause you can never have too much skippy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Blogroll scrooges should be penalized, don’t you think?<\/p>\n Blogroll Scrooges Must Be Punished (Limerick) Mr. Eschaton’s wholesale de-linkage Some major bloggers (most prominently Atrios\/Eschaton and Kos) have recently instituted a blogroll purge, eliminating, for the most part, all but the usual suspects.\u00a0 And to add insult to injury, they referred to it in Orwellian fashion as “Blogroll Amnesty Day.”\u00a0 Now Kos never saw fit to link me, but I was on Eschaton’s blogroll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,32,28],"tags":[458,849],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-promotion","category-linky-love","category-non-political-verse","tag-blogroll-amnesty","tag-blogroll-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1454,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
\nHurts small bloggers through blogroll link shrinkage.
\nKos has done the same thing.
\nBoth are scrooges left-wing.
\nI’ve de-linked them and won’t give them inkage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"