{"id":184,"date":"2005-02-14T15:44:30","date_gmt":"2005-02-14T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2005-02-14T15:44:30","modified_gmt":"2005-02-14T15:44:30","slug":"one_year_of_blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/02\/14\/one_year_of_blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"One Year of Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

It just hit me: today is the first anniversary of my initial foray<\/a> into online writing. Hard to believe so much time has passed so quickly, and even harder to believe that I was initially worried about finding enough subject matter to make this blog worth the effort. If anything, I have far more things that I want to write about than time to write, but I suppose that’s a standard complaint from writers and people who just plain talk too much, like me.<\/p>\n

In case you’re the sort who’s interested in statistics, I’ve made 179 posts in the last twelve months — 180 counting this one — and have received 408 comments, including my own replies to other people’s remarks and discounting spam comments. I wish I had some way of determining the total word count of all that blather, but, unfortunately, the Movable Type software doesn’t track that statistic. (I suppose I could copy and paste it all into MS Word, which is capable of counting words, but that seems like more effort than it’s probably worth…)<\/p>\n

Simple Tricks and Nonsense hasn’t exactly gone the way I imagined it would — I’ve done far more linking to other material and far fewer Top Ten lists than I originally planned on — but it’s been fun for me, and hopefully for everyone who’s been reading. I joke about having only three loyal readers, but I know that I actually have a few more than that, and I thank each and every one of you for your interest in my egocentric ramblings.<\/p>\n

One final observation: I never did get around to writing that entry about my all-time favorite movies. Maybe sometime this<\/i> year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It just hit me: today is the first anniversary of my initial foray into online writing. Hard to believe so much time has passed so quickly, and even harder to believe that I was initially worried about finding enough subject matter to make this blog worth the effort. If anything, I have far more things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}