{"id":2525,"date":"2003-03-19T00:26:31","date_gmt":"2003-03-19T00:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2003-03-19T00:26:31","modified_gmt":"2003-03-19T00:26:31","slug":"tracking_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2525","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.weblogs.com\/2003\/03\/18#methododdities\">mentions trackback<\/a> and that it still confuses him.  I was in the same boat until I started playing around with it.  There has to be a better way to describe it.  The easiest I think of is calling it a kind of automated comment that gets posted to a blog post you reference.  I think it&#8217;s a great idea, and agree that someone will find some way to abuse it eventually (though I hope no time soon).<\/p>\n<p>What I wonder is if anyone has started looking at trackback data to see how stories are linked and how quickly some things spread across the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doc Searls mentions trackback and that it still confuses him. I was in the same boat until I started playing around with it. There has to be a better way to describe it. The easiest I think of is calling it a kind of automated comment that gets posted to a blog post you reference. [&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-2525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525","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=2525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}