{"id":28665,"date":"2025-04-01T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28665"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T17:03:27","slug":"28665","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28665","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>APRIL FOOL<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RANDYWELLS-WALL-OF-SHAME-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RANDYWELLS-WALL-OF-SHAME-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RANDYWELLS-WALL-OF-SHAME-1-1.jpg 570w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RANDYWELLS-WALL-OF-SHAME-1-1-330x140.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/RANDYWELLS-WALL-OF-SHAME-1-1-150x64.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 85vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My approach to finding new cars and car owner stories for my editorial clients has changed over the past ten years. There has been a significant increase in the frequency of encountering fake owners and\/or fake cars that has put me on guard. Fortunately, so far, I have identified these problems early enough in the process that I haven&#8217;t become a part of their ruse. <\/p>\n<p>My goal as a writer will continue to be vigilant and committed to only bringing the best car stories to publication with integrity. I&#8217;m all for the underdog, but nobody wants to be a part of a scam, including my editorial clients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL FOOL My approach to finding new cars and car owner stories for my editorial clients has changed over the past ten years. There has been a significant increase in the frequency of encountering fake owners and\/or fake cars that has put me on guard. Fortunately, so far, I have identified these problems early enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29640,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28665\/revisions\/29640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}