{"id":806,"date":"2010-01-16T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T23:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2012-09-04T16:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T08:19:43","slug":"and-thats-how-the-seagulls-landed-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/and-thats-how-the-seagulls-landed-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;And That&#8217;s How The Seagulls Landed On The Beach&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/20091112_40D_0412.jpg?resize=754%2C521&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"&#038;#34And That&#038;#39s How The Seagulls Landed On The Beach&#038;#34\" width=\"754\" height=\"521\" class=\"centered\" \/><br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/?p=734\">Bondi Beach<\/a>, Australia \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now a rant&#8230; I used to be an avid reader and fan of the UK photo magazine <a href=\"www.photographymonthly.com\"><em>Photography Monthly<\/em><\/a>, subscribing to it even for a while. The magazine had seen better days even though it has gone through a change of 3 editorial teams since 2003. With the latest change, it seems to have taken a turn for the worse. I was extremely disappointed when a forum thread with 72 follow-up posts, many with negative comments (from loyal and concerned readers) on the new issue (from the new team) were deleted by their forum moderators. When I voiced my comment on their (now restricted-to-public-view) feedback forums, I was surprised to get a notification that posts have now to be approved by moderators before they can be posted. I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/2010\/01\/pmpost.pdf\">cross-posted the same post<\/a> to their general forum as well (no approval required). This was the reply I got a few hours later:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hello engloy,<\/p>\n<p>You are receiving this notification because your topic &#8220;What happened to<br \/>\nthe feedback posts on the January issue?&#8221; at &#8220;Photography Monthly Forum&#8221;<br \/>\nwas disapproved by a moderator or administrator.<\/p>\n<p>The following reason was given for the disapproval:<\/p>\n<p>The post contains links to illegal or pirated software.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nBest Regards,<br \/>\nThe Photography Monthly Team<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hello???????! Has PM hired on its team, people that engineered the &#8220;Great Firewall of China&#8221;? That magazine has just lost one loyal reader. In any case, I have found my new read and subscription. For those who miss the Photography Monthly of old, check out <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalslrphoto.com\/\">Digital SLR Photography<\/a><\/em> magazine, which has as its editor, Daniel Lezano, the person who started PM in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-content\/photos\/thumb20091112_40D_0412.jpg\" alt=\"&#038;#34And That&#038;#39s How The Seagulls Landed On The Beach&#038;#34\" width=\"130\" height=\"89\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"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}},"categories":[4,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-candids","category-decisive-moments","category-travel","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/przUn-d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/engloy\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}