{"id":573892446,"date":"2020-08-05T22:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892446"},"modified":"2020-08-12T01:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T05:11:51","slug":"happy-website-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/happy-website-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy website anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog started, on Blogger, this week in 2003. I was bored and it was a light day after work in a slow week in the studio. I&#8217;d been reading a lot of blogs and decided to try it myself with no expectations. And after 17 years and one day, here we are.<\/p>\n<p>Jump forward a year, this same week in 2004, I bought the URL to this website. I think my co-workers talked me into it. Better to host your own than to jump from free site to free site. Tomorrow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">kennysmith.org<\/a> turns 16 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This is a basic view of the statistical trend of monthly growth of the site&#8217;s visitors.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/stats.jpg\"><\/center>The whole site, which I scaled back starting in 2016 or 2017, has welcomed almost 3.7 million visitors over the years. Not bad for a personal site.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for being a part of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog started, on Blogger, this week in 2003. I was bored and it was a light day after work in a slow week in the studio. I&#8217;d been reading a lot of blogs and decided to try it myself with no expectations. And after 17 years and one day, here we are. Jump forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-site","category-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892453,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892446\/revisions\/573892453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}