{"id":5728,"date":"2009-10-28T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2009-10-28T13:06:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T18:06:29","slug":"bifecta-of-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5728","title":{"rendered":"Bifecta of Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What could possibly beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5707\">getting <\/a>my first <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/87464\/\">Instalanche<\/a> in three years and change?<\/p>\n<p>Getting linked from <em>Backstreets.com, <\/em>the official home of all things Bruce, that&#8217;s what!\u00a0 The Jersey News Turnpike <a href=\"http:\/\/backstreets.com\/news.html\">linked to yesterday&#8217;s piece <\/a>on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5289\">Garry Tallent&#8217;s birthday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I was in my twenties, ekeing out a living as a freelancer, and still trying to make it in music, I used to fantasize on how cool it&#8217;d be to get an article in <em>Backstreets<\/em>, back when it was entirely a paper production.\u00a0 This works just fine, too!<\/p>\n<p>(And I&#8217;m not gonna lie &#8211; there&#8217;s something just so fun about seeing that pageview counter sprinting into quintuple digits).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; thanks, newcomers, for stopping by!\u00a0 Come back anytime!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What could possibly beat getting my first Instalanche in three years and change? Getting linked from Backstreets.com, the official home of all things Bruce, that&#8217;s what!\u00a0 The Jersey News Turnpike linked to yesterday&#8217;s piece on Garry Tallent&#8217;s birthday. When I was in my twenties, ekeing out a living as a freelancer, and still trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728","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=5728"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5738,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5728\/revisions\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}