{"id":1038,"date":"2003-03-24T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2003-03-25T09:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/25\/what-is-trackback\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:58:57","slug":"what-is-trackback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/24\/what-is-trackback\/","title":{"rendered":"What is TrackBack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7289,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.movabletype.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260306004502\\\/https:\\\/\\\/movabletype.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 20:10:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 05:52:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 17:25:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 03:37:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 10:45:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 16:49:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 00:00:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 05:19:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-13 07:08:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:33:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 07:33:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15036,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sixapart.com\\\/log\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/a_beginners_gui.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20050207043953\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.sixapart.com:80\\\/log\\\/2003\\\/03\\\/a_beginners_gui.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 12:09:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-31 10:45:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 14:30:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 23:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 23:10:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/oooh_hes_cute.html#c219011\" title=\"Oooh - he's cute!\">explain TrackBack<\/a> in the past when asked, though I&#8217;ve never been too sure how well I did. Handily enough, I don&#8217;t have to try anymore, as Ben and Mena Trott &#8212; the creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\" title=\"MovableType\">MovableType<\/a> &#8212; have written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/log\/2003\/03\/a_beginners_gui.shtml\" title=\"A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack\">A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to TrackBack<\/a>. Good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tried to explain TrackBack in the past when asked, though I&#8217;ve never been too sure how well I did. Handily enough, I don&#8217;t have to try anymore, as Ben and Mena Trott &mdash; the creators of MovableType &mdash; have written A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to TrackBack. Good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040],"tags":[812],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-movabletype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}