{"id":13235,"date":"2009-02-10T09:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/02\/10\/technical-difficulties-7.html"},"modified":"2009-02-10T09:08:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:08:20","slug":"technical_difficulties_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/technical_difficulties_7.html","title":{"rendered":"Technical difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/technical_difficulties.jpg\" style=\"width: 261px; height: 201px;\" title=\"We are experiencing technical difficulties\"  \/><\/div>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m painfully aware that the blog (particularly the comment system) is performing very slowly.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not certain what&#8217;s causing it, though it seems to be Evil Spammer-related.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I&#8217;m working on it. 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