{"id":5237,"date":"2013-03-12T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2013-03-12T19:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T23:26:57","slug":"when-i-post-people-read-for-a-second-or-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"When I post, people read. For a second or so."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I promised you<\/strong> (subject to editorial approval) an American Spectator Online article by me, on the social and political aspects of the Vikings TV series on the History Channel. <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2013\/03\/12\/history-channel-gets-vikings-p\">Here it is<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Phil and I have both noticed <\/strong>a spike in visits to this blog lately. An examination of our Sitemeter stats shows that every day we get clicks from people searching online for &#8220;countries with a cross on the flag,&#8221; or words to that effect. This brings them to my post, <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4548\">Flagging Enthusiasm<\/a>. Those readers generally stay about two seconds before going off to search elsewhere. Apparently there is interest &#8212; in widely spread locations around the world &#8212; for information on flags with crosses on them. I&#8217;m at a loss to explain it. Any ideas?<br \/>\n<strong>In further news,<\/strong> my e-book <i>Hailstone Mountain<\/i> should be coming out very soon now. Just Kindle at first, I&#8217;m afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised you (subject to editorial approval) an American Spectator Online article by me, on the social and political aspects of the Vikings TV series on the History Channel. Here it is. Phil and I have both noticed a spike in visits to this blog lately. An examination of our Sitemeter stats shows that every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5237\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When I post, people read. For a second or so.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[3272],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","tag-vikings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}