{"id":3671,"date":"2010-11-05T09:40:52","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2010-11-05T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T13:40:52","slug":"guest-post-from-almost-educational-blog-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/guest-post-from-almost-educational-blog-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest post from fake blog writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Guest post from fake blog writer (and also the story of being nearly Punk&#8217;d)<\/h1>\n<p>I was asked by &#8220;Elizabeth&#8221; to post a guest blog and link to what turned out to a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fake blog\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fake_blog\">fake blog<\/a> they claim is for people &#8220;excited by the prospect of veiled links to the education industry in the form of blog posts&#8221;. Now I don&#8217;t know about you, but to me, this marketing trickery is so fantastic, and doesn&#8217;t sound the least bit manipulative, especially if you&#8217;ve gone to 8 years of fake evil medical school. ~<em>coughing while slurring<\/em> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidetoonlineschools.com\/blog\/\">Fail<\/a>&#8221; <em>under my breath<\/em>~<\/p>\n<p><strong>But,<\/strong> I&#8217;m a girl of my word. I told them I would post it, AND link to them, which was incredibly nice of me, since they were seriously wasting my time. Yep. You bet &#8216;cha. I will do just what I said.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#ff6600;\">One smallish adjustment though&#8230;.<\/span><\/em> Since they bill themselves as<em> almost educational<\/em>, their submission could only be\u00a0<em>almost<\/em> worthy of being posted on this fine specimen of a blog you have before you, and I will <strong><em>almost<\/em><\/strong> post it here.<\/p>\n<p><em>After I read the submitted piece by &#8220;Andrew Hall&#8221;, (a blind, autistic, amputee from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tuzla\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=44.5380555556,18.6761111111&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=44.5380555556,18.6761111111 (Tuzla)&amp;t=h\">Tuzla<\/a>, with only two working thumbs), \u00a0I was SO UNDERWHELMED <\/em><em>that I thought it was a good fit for my humor site, that is equally underwhelming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><span style=\"color:#99cc00;\"><em>I made up the thing about Andrew. I&#8217;m not sure about his situation, at all.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3671 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/piles-of-garbage-cows-eating-crap.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/piles-of-garbage-cows-eating-crap-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/piles-of-garbage-cows-eating-crap-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/piles-of-garbage-cows-eating-crap-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/piles-of-garbage-cows-eating-crap-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3673'>\n\t\t\t\tAndrew&#8217;s fake farm\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pripyat6.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pripyat6-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pripyat6-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pripyat6-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/pripyat6-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3674'>\n\t\t\t\tAndrew&#8217;s fake office\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>On a personal note: So, sorry &#8220;Andrew&#8221;, this is a bit of a downgrade for your humor piece, but thank you for trying. Keep your chin up, because I&#8217;ve heard (from an <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"India\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=28.6133333333,77.2083333333&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=28.6133333333,77.2083333333 (India)&amp;t=h\">Indian<\/a>-themed movie) that blind singers get the most money; I think you will do fine. <strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\">You can <em>sing<\/em>, right? Bless your heart.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you may click FAIL to go to their fake site, and read the submission <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p170Fa-Z\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>I&#8217;m only sorry I can&#8217;t give you what you can never get back: the 6 minutes of your life you wasted here today. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underwhelming guest post from Almost Educational blog writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3,109,158,1212,1213,1214,1472,1554,6538,1955,2047,2137,2405,3507,3765],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","tag-fail","tag-3dogdare","tag-advertising","tag-fake-blog","tag-fake-blogs","tag-fake-schools","tag-god","tag-guest-post","tag-humor","tag-lame","tag-lisa-colon-delay","tag-marketing","tag-online-degrees","tag-triple-dog-dare","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}