{"id":271,"date":"2005-02-19T00:39:53","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T00:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/one_year_ago_to.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:51","slug":"one_year_ago_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/one_year_ago_to.shtml","title":{"rendered":"One Year Ago Today &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One year, 225 posts, 398 comments and 43,346 unique visits ago today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/000003.shtml\">I launched this blog<\/a> (I did back-date some of my QT entries so it looks like I started on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/000019.shtml\">January 1st<\/a>.)  To be fair, of the 43,346 &#8216;unique visits&#8217; tracked by my host, I bet something like 43 were real people over the last year (although evidently only I guess only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/000237.shtml#421\">four<\/a> of them are brave enough to let the world know they&#8217;re here.)<br \/>\nThanks to all of you who read, and an even bigger thanks to you who comment (hint hint) for putting up with me for the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One year, 225 posts, 398 comments and 43,346 unique visits ago today I launched this blog (I did back-date some of my QT entries so it looks like I started<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/one_year_ago_to.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Year Ago Today &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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