{"id":70,"date":"2005-08-04T22:15:44","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=70"},"modified":"2005-08-05T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2005-08-05T17:09:22","slug":"blogcritics-reaches-milestone-10000000-unique-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=70","title":{"rendered":"Blogcritics Reaches Milestone: 10,000,000 Unique Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s insufferably hot here in NYC &#8211; because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alligator.org\/pt2\/050802ap_hurricane.php\" target=\"_blank\">global warming<\/a> I suppose &#8211; but no major hurricanes have hit us  &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypress.com\/18\/29\/news&#038;columns\/aaronnaparstek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">yet<\/a>.  And while the atmosphere cooks, so does the blogosphere: I&#8217;m happy to be a writer for a blog that just received its ten millionth unique visitor.  Congratulations to Eric Olsen, the editors, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogcritics.org\/archives\/2005\/08\/04\/133811.php\"  target=\"_blank\">Blogcritics<\/a> writers.<\/p>\n<p>In music news, the Soul of the Blues Festival is over, and it was an overall big success.  Not that anyone wore overalls, but you get the <a href=\"sotbfest2005.html\" target=\"_blank\">picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Fort Greene, a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of Brooklyn, the recent opening of a &#8220;sex shop&#8221; on a busy commercial street left fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fuckvideos.xxx\/\">www.fuckvideos.xxx<\/a> rejoicing but also prompted this objection from an area resident: &#8220;To have what most people would associate with pornography right out there along with the basic services, it alarms them.&#8221;  [Source: The Brooklyn Papers, July 23, 2005]  That may be the worst objection to pornography I&#8217;ve ever heard.  Porn may be all sorts of bad things, but for much of America, it&#8217;s nothing if not a &#8220;basic service,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twinkmovies.xxx\/\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">find out here now<\/a> the kind of porn Americans watch daily.  There are millions of people across the world sitting at their computers accessing porn on websites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nu-bay.com\/\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">Nu Bay<\/a> but it is done so behind closed doors, it&#8217;s still a taboo subject even though it&#8217;s such a common past time.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some adult porn websites that sound like they have child pornography images and videos on them because of what they are called, sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngsexer.com\/\" alt=\"\" title=\"\">www.youngsexer.com<\/a>, but these sites are 100% legal and only contain images and videos of adults.<\/p>\n<p>And in the New York City suburb of Rye, at the famous Rye Playland amusement park, <a href=\"http:\/\/1010wins.com\/topstories\/local_story_215185612.html\" target=\"_blank\">a little boy was murdered by gnomes and trolls<\/a>.  So don&#8217;t let anyone tell you monsters aren&#8217;t real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s insufferably hot here in NYC &#8211; because of global warming I suppose &#8211; but no major hurricanes have hit us &#8211; yet. And while the atmosphere cooks, so does the blogosphere: I&#8217;m happy to be a writer for a blog that just received its ten millionth unique visitor. Congratulations to Eric Olsen, the editors, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=70\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blogcritics Reaches Milestone: 10,000,000 Unique Visitors&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}