{"id":9142,"date":"2013-08-03T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2013-08-03T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:24:06","slug":"where-to-all-the-readers-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9142","title":{"rendered":"Where to all the Readers come from?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first two days of August have averaged almost 2,000 new readers. That&#8217;s up from the 300&#8217;s a couple days earlier. I hope they don&#8217;t crowd out my original Eight loyal readers. I hope a few of the newbies <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=9017\">speak English<\/a> although if they don&#8217;t it may aid them in making sense of my ranting. <\/p>\n<p>Certainly I have never worked all that hard to sensibly edit my blog pieces. They&#8217;ve always been a little TMI for most people&#8217;s taste. It reminds me of the tale an old college friend told me about a derelict he lived with at the Bethel. (it was an apartment that housed inebriates up through the seventies) The Derelict used to boast how he&#8217;d get free beer from Fitgers Brewery by stealing up to an outside wall and holding a tankard up to a pipe that let out discarded brew that leaked downhill into Lake Superior. <\/p>\n<p>My blog is sort of like that swill. Its not really a fully finished product fit for retail but it <em>can<\/em> make you see pink elephants. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first two days of August have averaged almost 2,000 new readers. That&#8217;s up from the 300&#8217;s a couple days earlier. I hope they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}