{"id":29548,"date":"2019-07-13T04:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T09:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29548"},"modified":"2019-07-13T04:59:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T09:59:04","slug":"briefly-for-those-of-you-who-subscribe-thanks-so-much-for-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29548","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: For those of you who subscribe, thanks so much for reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2925-subscribers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29549\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2925-subscribers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2925-subscribers.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2925-subscribers-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just noticed that I\u2019m approaching 3,000 subscribers for this site again. Although I\u2019ve had plenty of individual days with far higher readership, the core of any site is those readers who are interested enough to subscribe and keep coming back. In the days when I wrote about politics, I hit 3,000 subscribers at my peak, but once I shifted focus, those subscribers started dropping like flies. These days, the readership numbers are still lower than they were when I wrote about politics, but I think it\u2019s a better quality reader \u2014 people who are interested in something more important to long-term happiness than politics will ever be. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll hit 30,000 readers in one day anytime soon \u2014 as I did one day years ago when Rush Limbaugh and several conservative commentators linked to me \u2014 but I appreciate those of you who keep coming back again and again. I can\u2019t thank you individually \u2014 and I don\u2019t even know who you are \u2014 but I want you to know that I really appreciate you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed that I\u2019m approaching 3,000 subscribers for this site again. Although I\u2019ve had plenty of individual days with far higher readership, the core of any site is those readers who are interested enough to subscribe and keep coming back. In the days when I wrote about politics, I hit 3,000 subscribers at my <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29548\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7GA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29548","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=29548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29550,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29548\/revisions\/29550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}