{"id":76858,"date":"2018-01-01T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76858"},"modified":"2018-01-01T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:31:58","slug":"the-state-of-the-blog-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76858","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Blog; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to our web traffic counter, we had more than two million unique visitors last year. Their number one destination was our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?page_id=30655\">Stolen Valor page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The most popular valor thief, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73334\">Tracy Marrow aka Ice-T<\/a>, the next most popular was the perennial favorite, the late, great, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=24149\">&#8220;Soup Sandwich&#8221; Nick Androsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76859\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76859\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1-475x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1-475x333.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1.jpg 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=76860\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76860\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2-233x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2-233x333.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Following Soup is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72428\">Travis Wade<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71252\">Dan Rather<\/a> hot on his heels.<\/p>\n<p>We added 242 valor thieves to our pages this year between us and our partners, so the problem doesn&#8217;t seem to be going away, which means we aren&#8217;t going away either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to our web traffic counter, we had more than two million unique visitors last year. &hellip; <a title=\"The State of the Blog; 2017\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76858\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The State of the Blog; 2017<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76858","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\/76858","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=76858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}