{"id":330,"date":"2008-06-15T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=330"},"modified":"2008-06-15T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-15T14:52:00","slug":"330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I fixed a subtlish bug in Mind Traffic Control today.<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to pull the email address out of user objects using user.email() &#8230; however it seemed that you might be able to have users who don&#8217;t have an email address and for who user.email() fails or returns None. Not common, I guess because user id&#8217;s are based on Google accounts (which is mainly Gmail accounts I&#8217;d assume.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway I&#8217;ve now wrapped all attempts to get user.email() in a try. But next question, what should I do instead? When I find a user without an email, what should I use to identify him or her?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fixed a subtlish bug in Mind Traffic Control today. I was trying to pull the email address out of user objects using user.email() &#8230; however it seemed that you might be able to have users who don&#8217;t have an email address and for who user.email() fails or returns None. Not common, I guess because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,282],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gae","tag-mind-traffic-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}