{"id":1170,"date":"2002-04-16T05:49:01","date_gmt":"2002-04-16T05:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2002-04-16T05:49:01","modified_gmt":"2002-04-16T05:49:01","slug":"a_question_for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"A question for people out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Lately I have been including links to Amazon when refering to books and movies I have bought\/read\/watched.  Is it considered bad form to have those links earn me $$ if someone decides to buy the book?<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>Amazon has its <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/subst\/associates\/join\/associates.html\/ref=gw_bt_as\/103-3350399-5351862\">Associates Program<\/A>.  Which lets you have links to amazon products on your site.  If someone clicks through to the product, then decides to buy it, you get a small cut of sale.  While I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d go out of my way to list things just on the hope of someone buying something, I do post links to books quite often.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>So the question is, is this considered a good or bad thing? Or does it not matter at all?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been including links to Amazon when refering to books and movies I have bought\/read\/watched. Is it considered bad form to have those links earn me $$ if someone decides to buy the book? Amazon has its Associates Program. Which lets you have links to amazon products on your site. If someone clicks [&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-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}