{"id":465,"date":"2006-05-25T07:34:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=465"},"modified":"2020-01-01T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:40:19","slug":"absolute-write-taken-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/absolute-write-taken-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Absolute Write taken offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/misssnark.blogspot.com\/\">Via Miss Snark<\/a>: the Absolute Write website has been pulled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007577.html#007577\">Making Light has the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Absolute Write was an excellent resource for writers: it publicized the activities of scam agents.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear precisely why the site was taken down. The hosting service was apparently threatened by Barbara Bauer, one of the agents whose carryings-on have been documented on the blog. However, the hosting service owner has also just revived her own rival site . . .<\/p>\n<p>The good news is, according to the comments on the Making Light post, the AW owner is already making plans to have the site restored to a new host.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/absolutewrite.com\">Absolute Write is now here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Miss Snark: the Absolute Write website has been pulled. Making Light has the story. Absolute Write was an excellent resource for writers: it publicized the activities of scam agents. It&#8217;s not clear precisely why the site was taken down. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/absolute-write-taken-offline\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1108,1110,1114,533,241],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-absolute-write","tag-barbara-bauer","tag-literary-agent-scams","tag-literary-agents","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5552,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}