{"id":40645,"date":"2018-07-23T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=40645"},"modified":"2018-07-23T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T17:41:50","slug":"my-11th-blogversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/my-11th-blogversary\/","title":{"rendered":"My 11th Blogversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog 11 years ago today with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/just-placeholder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">just a placeholder<\/a>.&#8221; Shout out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/britney-spears-stole-my-ring-yall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Britney Spears, who &#8212; a couple of days later &#8212; inspired me to start writing a lot more than I&#8217;d planned to<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"attachment_40647\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40647\" class=\"wp-image-40647\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1.jpg 1220w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Britney-in-OK-1-300x390.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since July 23, 2007, I&#8217;ve published 3,746 posts, meaning I&#8217;ve added about 250 after celebrating my 10th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/special-occasions\/anniversaries\/blogversary\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blogversary<\/a> last year. That extra-special milestone called for a video, and if you haven&#8217;t seen it before, you can watch it now.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l1rFyPCCobA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Posting-wise, my #goals for the near future include completing a post that I first tinkered with &#8212; I shit you not &#8212; 11 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/damngirl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"76\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/damngirl.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/damngirl-300x46.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>My procrastination on Part II of my sad Shady Records story hasn&#8217;t been quite that egregious, seeing as I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/a-long-and-shady-business-story-part-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Part I this April<\/a>. I&#8217;m going to focus on getting that one live before July 23, 2029, because 11 years can fly by before you know it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog 11 years ago today with &#8220;just a placeholder.&#8221; Shout out to Britney Spears, who &#8212; a couple of days later &#8212; inspired me to start writing a lot more than I&#8217;d planned to. Since July 23, 2007, I&#8217;ve published 3,746 posts, meaning I&#8217;ve added about 250 after celebrating my 10th blogversary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/my-11th-blogversary\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[669,110,656,723],"tags":[1379],"class_list":{"0":"post-40645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about-wendy","8":"category-anniversaries","9":"category-blogversary","10":"category-special-occasions","11":"tag-blogversary","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40645"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40656,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40645\/revisions\/40656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}