{"id":365,"date":"2003-06-06T10:29:25","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T14:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/06\/playing-hardball\/"},"modified":"2003-06-06T10:29:25","modified_gmt":"2003-06-06T14:29:25","slug":"playing-hardball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/06\/playing-hardball\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Hardball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/stolen_image.gif\" width=\"175\" align=\"right\">I hate to do things that make me look like a jerk, but I had to.  If you directly link to any of my images from somewhere else, you&#8217;re going to get an image that looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>I had to do it, because in the first few days of the month, I&#8217;ve gone through as much of my bandwidth quota as I normally do in an <i>entire month<\/i>.  And, after nicely requesting that the person who was stealing my bandwidth simply copy the image to his\/her own server, that person instead linked the same image in a different location &#8211; like I wouldn&#8217;t be able to find it.  Hello? Referrer logs?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the plan was just to do it for that one referrer, but since it kept changing, I did it for any requests for my images that don&#8217;t come from my server.  Please let me know if for some reason this messes up the images on my site &#8211; as far as I can tell, it hasn&#8217;t.  And if you ever want to use my images, copy them to your own server, link back to me, and everyone will be happy.  (And if you ask me first, I&#8217;ll be even happier.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to do things that make me look like a jerk, but I had to. If you directly link to any of my images from somewhere else, you&#8217;re going to get an image that looks like this: I had<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}