Today is this blog’s eighth birthday.<\/p>\n
I”m not going to engage in much navel-gazing here, except to note that I’ve had this blog going far longer than any given job I’ve ever held.\u00a0 I’ve been doing it since before my kids were teenagers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It’s been hugely fun, of course; it’s given me a social life, it led me back into tak radio (the first big love of my life) and it’s given me something constant, every day, in a life that usually gravitates toward chaos.<\/p>\n
The only real change in eight years (besides a sweeping change in “look and feel” almost seven years ago, long overdue for an update) has been adding my friends Johnny Roosh, Bogus Doug and First Ringer over the past year and a half. And that, too, has been fun.<\/p>\n
Anyway, thanks for reading all this time.\u00a0 I’m always amazed at how this blog has gone over, over the years.\u00a0 For almost the first year, my daily visitors went from single digits to maybe 40 a day.\u00a0 From there, it’s grown to over 2,000 unique visitors a day.\u00a0\u00a0 Some someone’s <\/em>having fun!<\/p>\n Anyway – thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is this blog’s eighth birthday. I”m not going to engage in much navel-gazing here, except to note that I’ve had this blog going far longer than any given job I’ve ever held.\u00a0 I’ve been doing it since before my kids were teenagers.\u00a0 It’s been hugely fun, of course; it’s given me a social life, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","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=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}