{"id":2345,"date":"2008-03-31T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2008-03-31T07:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:00:06","slug":"minnesota-blogs-you-should-be-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2345","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Blogs You Should Be Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, it occurred to me that I used <\/em>to make a really religious point of linking out to people that I enjoy reading.\u00a0 Back in about 2003, I was extremely <\/em>conscientious about it; I was aware of the debt I owed to bigger blogs that had sent tons and tons of traffic my way earlier in this blog’s history, and put me where I am (which is pretty much the “C” list of blogs; Ed and Powerline and Lileks are obviously up on the “A” list, the household names; Michael Brodkorb and PZ Meyers are probably on the “B” list, big solid regional blogs that are key, nationally-known players within their niches.\u00a0 Me?\u00a0 I’m just a solid regional blog with 2,500 unique visitors a day.\u00a0 Nothing to be ashamed about at all, since it’s about 2,490 more than I ever expected.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s a pack of usual suspects I link to constantly; KAR<\/a>, TvM<\/a>, Red<\/a>, and a a bunch of others.\u00a0 And the bigs, of course – HAir <\/a>and the Powerguys <\/a>and of course my NARN mates at Fraters<\/a>, MDE <\/a>and the Scholaz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But there are a zillion other blogs out there, and it’d be really cool if a lot <\/em>of them got a ton more traffic than they did, because they have something to say and a great way of saying it.<\/p>\n

So I’ll be doing that for the next few weeks.\u00a0 Just because.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, it occurred to me that I used to make a really religious point of linking out to people that I enjoy reading.\u00a0 Back in about 2003, I was extremely conscientious about it; I was aware of the debt I owed to bigger blogs that had sent tons and tons of traffic my way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}