{"id":212,"date":"2013-02-19T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2013-02-19T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T15:52:10","slug":"the-state-of-the-blog-and-ponies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/the-state-of-the-blog-and-ponies\/","title":{"rendered":"The State Of The Blog (and ponies)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this blog is nearly two months old. A few of you seem to be enjoying the things I post here, or at least are nice people who stop by to humor me. Either way works for me.<\/p>\n<p>Some inside baseball. My stats tell me I average between 10 and 20 views a day. In addition to that, I average 0-2 comments a day (this stat is way more important to me, to be honest). \u00a0These numbers aren&#8217;t where I&#8217;d like them to be yet, but that&#8217;s okay. I&#8217;m really happy I have a few loyal readers. Also, I knew building an audience would be more difficult here, without the help of the built-in wordpress or blogger network.<\/p>\n<p>What prompted this post, actually, was that I saw a huge spike in views yesterday. 100+ views to be precise. My stats tell me these were all direct hits, which is weird, and I have no real referral data from them. \u00a0I also didn&#8217;t see any new comments from these views, which tells me it was most likely some sort of bot or something, and not some spike in popularity. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a few additions to the site in the last day or so that will enable you to be notified when I&#8217;ve posted something new. I&#8217;ve added a subscribe form in the sidebar so you can get notifications via e-mail. Also, I&#8217;ve added a link to this site&#8217;s rss feed, also in the sidebar. Feel free to use either of these, if you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I thought I&#8217;d post something cool, to reward those who have managed to read this far.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter is really big fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is magic. We faithfully watch as a family each Saturday. Last Saturday&#8217;s episode was a BFD in the MLP:FIM community. It was also a musical episode. One song in particular sticks out for me, and encapsulates to me, what would make the world a better place if we could all hear it in our hearts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A true, true friend helps a friend in need.<br \/>\nA friend will be there to help them see.<br \/>\nA true, true friend helps a friend in need<br \/>\nTo see the light that shines from a true, true friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pyPt4uPuPHM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this blog is nearly two months old. A few of you seem to be enjoying the things I post here, or at least are nice people who stop by to humor me. Either way works for me. Some inside baseball. My stats tell me I average between 10 and 20 views a day. In addition to that, I average 0-2 comments a day (this stat is way more important to me, to be honest). \u00a0These numbers aren&#8217;t where I&#8217;d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/the-state-of-the-blog-and-ponies\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Blog Post: The State Of The Blog (and ponies) http:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-3q","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[68,42],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-3q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}