{"id":57418,"date":"2014-12-31T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57418"},"modified":"2014-12-31T12:16:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T17:16:44","slug":"the-state-of-the-blog-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57418","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Blog Address"},"content":{"rendered":"

So here we go into yet another year of blogging, but going forward, let’s look at 2014. <\/p>\n

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Over 3.8 million unique visitors this year up from 2.6 million in 2013. Our most popular post, after the Stolen Valor page last year was Soup Sandwich, this year our most popular post was the one about Katrina Moerk<\/a> the trolling 1SG, followed by Joe Teti<\/a> – our two most popular posts weren’t even Stolen Valor people. Ron Mailahn<\/a> and Soup Sandwich<\/a> make an appearance again this year, with Derek Church, the Round Ranger<\/a>, ending up the most popular phony that we exposed this year, but then he had sockpuppets and his wife campaigning for him.<\/p>\n

For the first time, we upgraded our presence on the internet with a dedicated TAH server and we changed the format of the blog back in March. We would have ended the year in the black (from ad revenue and your donations) for the first time if it hadn’t been for legal expenses brought about by people who think they can sue us so they can be as phony as they want to be. It didn’t work for them, and legal expenses for my sole proprietorship are tax deductible – so I win again on the front lines of Stolen Valor.<\/p>\n

By the way, the results of the Stolen Valor tournament will publish at 2359 hours (that’s 11:59 pm for civilians) tonight, so check in during your celebration.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of my fellow co-bloggers here as well as all of the regular commenters who can’t seem to quit us for yet another successful year. Special thanks to Mary, Doug Sterner, Don Shipley, Scotty Hughes and Bulldog1 for their invaluable contributions to our success. And our most popular busts this year, Derek Church and Mark Tiemann, the Round Marine<\/a>, came from your tips – so don’t stop believing. I don’t know exactly how many phonies we (us and our partners) busted last year, but I do know that since March, it’s been over two hundred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So here we go into yet another year of blogging, but going forward, let’s look at … The State of the Blog Address<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57418","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=57418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}