{"id":3168,"date":"2010-03-05T22:37:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2017-09-22T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T12:55:34","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2010\/03\/05\/a-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blast from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\/><b>Music: Those Were The Days<\/b><br \/>I was startled looking at my website today when I saw the hit counter, which tells me the site has had more than 23 million hits since December of 2000.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have to put that in perspective.  It&#8217;s really just the same forty-two people coming back again and again to see if DANCE is done yet, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>(I suspect the Not A Blog actually gets MORE visitors than my main site.  A mention here &#8212; of a forthcoming appearance, a book sale, a news item &#8212; seems to generate a lot more response than anything on my Appearances page, my Signed Books page, or my News page).<\/p>\n<p>No point to any of this, just&#8230; hey, 23 million hits, that&#8217;s kinda cool&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>No telling how many of you have actually been around since 2000, and how many found my site and\/or the Not A Blog just last week.  Some of you newcomers, though, might enjoy giving a listen to the series of podcasts I recorded back in 2005, to promote A FEAST FOR CROWS.  (I assume you old timers have heard them all already).  They&#8217;re all at<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/TheGeorgeRRMartinPodcast<\/p>\n<p>I imagine I will be doing more of these when DANCE WITH DRAGONS comes out.  I&#8217;ll need to think up some more topics.  (Maybe &#8220;Deadlines, and Why They Should Never Be Missed&#8221; would be a good one).  Meanwhile, these may entertain and enlighten those of you who haven&#8217;t heard &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>And try not to laugh TOO hard at the part where I say I hope to finish DANCE by the end of the year.  I really meant it, honest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\/>Music: Those Were The DaysI was startled looking at my website today when I saw the hit counter, which tells me the site has had more than 23 million hits since December of 2000. Of course, I have to put that in perspective. It&#8217;s really just the same forty-two people coming back again and again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[239,89,19],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}