Gentle Readers of this Tohu Bohu have now made six thousand comments. Well, and that’s including my own, more than a thousand of those. 1,180 if a simple search is correct. Not that I shouldn’t count my own with y’all’s, as we are in this thing together, whatever it is.\n
This Tohu Bohu has been around for just a smidgeon over three thousand days, so that’s close to two comments a day for more than eight years. Some years more than others, of course. I don’t have numbers for this, but I do feel that I am writing more posts that spark no response at all, and fewer that are sparking real conversations, but there have been quite a few good threads in the last two years (since we hit the 5K mark<\/a>). There was one about Robert Elsmere<\/a>, and one about the way I delivered the line The house used to look so big<\/a>, and one about Board Games<\/a>. And Carols and Lessons and Lessons and Carols<\/a> as well. The thread about Who Wrote Shakespeare<\/a> was interesting as well, and featured people just showing up out of the blue, which is both fun and a trifle disorienting.\n The most fun for me was the Botticelli game<\/a>; I just realized that I didn’t actually state that the B I was thinking of was Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride<\/I>. The way to up those comment counts here is to get a game going—so many of y’all are Games Players. I recently came across a thing I wrote twenty years ago where I mentioned that I judge people mostly by how they play games (I think this may have been in reference to a Gentle Reader who I met at the time), and while I no longer really get the opportunity as a grupp to play parlor games with people shortly after making their acquaintance, it remains largely true that I don’t consider myself really close to anyone I don’t enjoy playing games with. Are there other games that work on blogs? The Fortunately\/Unfortunately<\/a> thread was fun, but couldn’t really sustain itself as a game, I suppose. The last Encore game was a disaster, and my recent attempt at lyrics fun didn’t really work. There are certainly a lot of problems for blog games, but we should be able to come up with something.\n Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>, In Which Your Humble Blogger is still not absolutely certain why I do this thing, but I’m sure the comments are a big part of it.<\/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-13768","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\/13768","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=13768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19386,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13768\/revisions\/19386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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