{"id":14566,"date":"2009-09-23T05:48:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T10:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14566"},"modified":"2009-09-23T06:17:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T11:17:39","slug":"our-3rd-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14566","title":{"rendered":"Our 3rd Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dbs-cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14571\" title=\"dbs-cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/dbs-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"dbs-cartoon\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was three years ago today that I got booted from the forums at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightnation.us\/index.php\/\">Right Nation<\/a> for being a jerk to a leftist. After being banned from the History Channel forums no less than 40 times, I decided to create a place from which I couldn&#8217;t be banned or put on stupid probation. Welcome to that place.<\/p>\n<p>It took me five days to buy the website and figure out how to drive this thing.<\/p>\n<p>Three years of endless blather, 980,000 visits and 24,000 comments later, the only thing I&#8217;ve learned is that you like racy pictures of Angie Harmon.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the blog comes from my proximity to DC, but it was taken from the title of a book about the Desert Storm Gulf War. The actual phrase was what a young sergeant in the 1st Cav Division told a reporter as they looked across the Saudi border into Iraq a few nights before the ground portion of the war began.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/This-Aint-Hell-Here-Sketchbook\/dp\/0891414436\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1222168552&amp;sr=8-5\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3346\" title=\"71ehtzem6nl_ss500_gif\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/71ehtzem6nl_ss500_gif-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/71ehtzem6nl_ss500_gif-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/71ehtzem6nl_ss500_gif-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/71ehtzem6nl_ss500_gif.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It still amazes me that a few thousand people actually take time out of their day to read what we write. Some are so interested in what we have to say, they send us tips. Heh. Who would have thunk it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the ride&#8230;may it never end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was three years ago today that I got booted from the forums at Right Nation &hellip; <a title=\"Our 3rd Anniversary\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14566\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our 3rd Anniversary<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}