{"id":1228,"date":"2007-04-27T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/27\/the-master-of-linkbait-has-arrived\/"},"modified":"2007-04-27T12:00:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T16:00:25","slug":"the-master-of-linkbait-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/27\/the-master-of-linkbait-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"The master of linkbait has arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/snipshot_e4jmfrbu726.jpg?w=525\" alt='snipshot_e4jmfrbu726.jpg' \/>Jason Calacanis&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/m.calacanis.com\/2007\/04\/27\/new-calacanis-link-baiting-rules\/\">post about linkbaiting<\/a> is a masterpiece of the genre &#8212; in the sense that it isn&#8217;t actually linkbait but a semi-satirical take on the entire concept of linkbaiting. It&#8217;s meta-linkbait. In a way, it&#8217;s the kind of post that only a by-the-bootstraps <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Calacanis\">Brooklyn-ite<\/a> like Jason could write: he&#8217;s making fun of the idea of linkbaiting, while at the same time engaging in it in a completely shameless way. It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s telling you about how dodgy most New Yorkers can be, and at the same time he&#8217;s picking your pocket. You have to admire that kind of chutzpah. And no, Jason, I&#8217;m not going to mention your dog \ud83d\ude42  In fact, I&#8217;m not even going to try to do a post that fulfills every criteria of the linkbaiting rules, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinke.com\/2007\/04\/27\/lets-see-if-this-works\/\">Chris Finke beat me to it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Calacanis&#8217;s latest post about linkbaiting is a masterpiece of the genre &#8212; in the sense that it isn&#8217;t actually linkbait but a semi-satirical take on the entire concept of linkbaiting. It&#8217;s meta-linkbait. In a way, it&#8217;s the kind of post that only a by-the-bootstraps Brooklyn-ite like Jason could write: he&#8217;s making fun of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/27\/the-master-of-linkbait-has-arrived\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The master of linkbait has arrived&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}