{"id":5520,"date":"2026-09-16T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2026-09-16T06:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T02:13:34","slug":"two-thousand-in-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5520","title":{"rendered":"Two thousand in the books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s bellringer: If a blogger posts upon his site three times a week, how long will it take for him to have <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2746\">a thousand posts<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Pause to get calculator.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about two thousand?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three times a week is about 156 posts a year (3 times 52).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two thousand divided by 156 is 12.82, so a little bit shy of 13 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I started this little blog of mine in <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=1\">November of 2013<\/a>. After stopping the previous incarnation of this site in 2009, when I said I was no longer interested in doing anything for free, I said in 2013 that<em>\u00a0the non-pecuniary benefits of hosting one\u2019s own blog are just too great to resist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still feel that way. And now I&#8217;m a little too old to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed the <em>first<\/em> 2,000 posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s bellringer: If a blogger posts upon his site three times a week, how long will it take for him to have a thousand posts? (Pause to get calculator.) How about two thousand? Three times a week is about 156 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5520\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}