{"id":1515,"date":"2026-07-20T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:55:32","slug":"sincerest-form-of-flattery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/sincerest-form-of-flattery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sincerest Form of Flattery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dog-Friendly-Courses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"264\" title=\"Dog Friendly Courses\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"Dog Friendly Courses\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Dog-Friendly-Courses_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#008000\">They say that \u201c<i>imitation is the sincerest form of flattery<\/i>\u201d so I will take the arrival of DogFriendlyGolfUK.com (thanks Fiona) as a compliment. I am a bit disappointed that that the blatant theft of all data derived from years of diligent research was scraped from DogGolfUK without so much as a hat tip. The website underscores perhaps the most fundamental problem with the web (and for that matter much of the today\u2019s world business) \u2013 anonymity. Unlike the very open face of DogGolfUK, with photos, names, contact details, DogFriendlyGolf has no identifying information and their contact form is inoperative. Just taking someone else\u2019s work and taking on some referral links which is how they plan to squeeze money out of this endeavour (DogGolfUK has always been and always will be non-commercial). If anyone has any insight into who the canine culprits are, I would be curious to know more about them. I would have been delighted to collaborate if they had just approached me, but hey ho.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that \u201cimitation is the sincerest form of flattery\u201d so I will take the arrival of DogFriendlyGolfUK.com (thanks Fiona) as a compliment. I am a bit disappointed that that the blatant theft of all data derived from years of diligent research was scraped from DogGolfUK without so much as a hat tip. The website [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}