{"id":76014,"date":"2020-12-09T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76014"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T21:55:39","slug":"curiosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76014","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I occasionally look over the traffic numbers for this blog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The top five posts in this blog’s history – at least in terms of hits since I installed a hit counter, probably 10 years ago – were pretty steadily the same for much of that time; a piece on Finnish sniper Simo H\u00e4yh\u00e4<\/a>, an article about the Gordon Kahl<\/a> shootout, a few others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But over the past year or so, a piece I wrote in 2007 about Saint Thomas University’s early adoption of cancel culture<\/a> against itself seems to have run away from the pack – as in, gotten nearly triple the hits of its nearest competitor. As in, 80,000 hits to something like 30,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Used to be you could Google for links to individual web pages, but that seems to have been discontinued (or I’m doing it wrong). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the one hand, immortalizing the perfidious moral cowardice of St. Thomas’s former administration is a feather in my proverbial cap. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who the hell <\/em>is still citing an article from 13 years ago to tens of thousands of people? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I occasionally look over the traffic numbers for this blog. The top five posts in this blog’s history – at least in terms of hits since I installed a hit counter, probably 10 years ago – were pretty steadily the same for much of that time; a piece on Finnish sniper Simo H\u00e4yh\u00e4, an article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014","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=76014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76072,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76014\/revisions\/76072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}