{"id":17982,"date":"2013-05-13T00:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=17982"},"modified":"2013-05-12T19:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:31:14","slug":"happy-birthday-to-the-monkeys-were-marking-two-years-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=17982","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday to the monkeys; we&#8217;re marking two years today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Second-birthday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17983\" alt=\"Second birthday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Second-birthday.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>It was May 13, 2011 when this site went live for the first time. I didn&#8217;t know what I wanted it to be &#8212; and I sometimes still don&#8217;t know &#8212; but I want to thank everybody who&#8217;s read and contributed at any point along the way. You know who you are. I appreciate you.<\/p>\n<p>In those 24 months, I&#8217;ve had visitors from 182 countries. I&#8217;ve had more than a quarter of a million unique visitors. I really do appreciate all of them. I&#8217;ve been surprised &#8212; well, shocked is a more appropriate word &#8212; that this kind of traffic is possible for one random guy with some decidedly out-of-the-mainstream opinions.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed spending time with you, and I look forward to spending more time with you in the future. Maybe I&#8217;ll eventually even start making the monkeys work again. You never know.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being here, everybody. And a special thanks for the few who leave comments. Whether we agree or not, I appreciate a crowd that&#8217;s more likely to think and discuss than to shout and scream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was May 13, 2011 when this site went live for the first time. I didn&#8217;t know what I wanted it to be &#8212; and I sometimes still don&#8217;t know &#8212; but I want to thank everybody who&#8217;s read and contributed at any point along the way. You know who you are. I appreciate you. <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=17982\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-4G2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17982"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17995,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17982\/revisions\/17995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}