{"id":2569,"date":"2009-10-21T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2009-10-21T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:19:43","slug":"i-dont-think-theres-anybody-back-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s anybody back there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anyone actually reading this old blog?  <\/p>\n<p>(chirp, chirp)<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I thought.  The amount of comments has been underwhelming lately, and when even my MOM isn&#8217;t reading, that&#8217;s pretty sad and depressing.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s happened to my readers?  I did have some readers, didn&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine who actually gets comments on her blog suggested I install a site meter or a counter of some kind so I&#8217;d actually know how many READERS I had, instead of just assuming that since there are no comments there are no readers.  I&#8217;ll admit I tried to figure out how to install one on my own.  Without involving my tech support guy.  Because he was probably out of town, or at work or something.  I didn&#8217;t do it right.  But I think that might have just made me more depressed.  <\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n<p>Have we all just gone the way of facebook and twitter?  We can only read a maximum of 130 characters, or whatever it is?  <\/p>\n<p>Do I need more jokes?  More contests?  More embarrassing stories?  More blood and gore?  Or maybe I just need to not care so much if there&#8217;s anybody reading here or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there anyone actually reading this old blog? (chirp, chirp) That&#8217;s what I thought. The amount of comments has been underwhelming lately, and when even my MOM isn&#8217;t reading, that&#8217;s pretty sad and depressing. What&#8217;s happened to my readers? I did have some readers, didn&#8217;t I? A friend of mine who actually gets comments on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2572,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}