{"id":10989,"date":"2008-02-24T09:47:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/24\/10989.html"},"modified":"2018-03-13T18:48:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:11","slug":"five-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2008\/02\/24\/five-years-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Years On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is five years today since My Gracious Host made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/02\/24\/919.html\">the announcement<\/a> that essentially opened up this Tohu Bohu. I had been blogging for a couple of weeks, just to get the hang of it and see if it was something I realio trulio wanted to do, but then, a week or two before Jed set me up with the blog database, I noodled around with writing blog-entry-type notes in a word processor, so it&#8217;s hard for me to put a better natal date to this thing than 24 Feb 2003. So. Five years.<br \/>\n<p>Sadly, what I was on about five years ago was the potential invasion of Iraq by a US-led coalition under the aegis of the United Nations. I was (&#8220;reluctantly&#8221;) in favor of such an invasion, although I rescinded my support later. Well, I don&#8217;t want to dwell on it. It was five years ago, and <I>oh shit can you believe we&#8217;re still fighting over there?<\/I><br \/>\n<p>Sorry.<br \/>\n<p>Anyway, one thousand six hundred and thirty-nine entries, not all of which sucked. Someday I should think about going back and writing that first entry.<br \/>\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Which time is marching on, and time\u2026 is still marching on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18280,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions\/18280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}