{"id":1499,"date":"2009-02-19T17:54:36","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2009-02-19T17:54:36","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T23:54:36","slug":"yelp-yelps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/1499","title":{"rendered":"Yelp yelps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The East Bay Express ran a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbayexpress.com\/gyrobase\/yelp_and_the_business_of_extortion_2_0\/Content?oid=927491&#038;showFullText=true\">wordy article<\/a> yesterday basically accusing <a href=\"http:\/\/yelp.com\">Yelp.com<\/a> of being a technological Mafia, running a protection racket for businesses who agreed to advertise with them and highlighting negative reviews for businesses who turned down the advertising offers.<\/p>\n<p>Yelp&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/officialblog.yelp.com\/2009\/02\/kathleen-richards-east-bay-express.html\">rather terse retort<\/a> basically says, &#8220;No way, you guys, advertisers still have negative reviews, and besides, your sources suck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not exactly compelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The East Bay Express ran a wordy article yesterday basically accusing Yelp.com of being a technological Mafia, running a protection racket for businesses who agreed to advertise with them and highlighting negative reviews for businesses who turned down the advertising offers. Yelp&#8217;s rather terse retort basically says, &#8220;No way, you guys, advertisers still have negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}