{"id":717,"date":"2009-11-03T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/03\/monday-night-300000\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T02:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T06:58:00","slug":"monday-night-300000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/03\/monday-night-300000\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; 300,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"pBlogBody_516920996\" class=\"blogContent\">\n<center><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">I passed an interesting milestone today.. somewhere between 12:30 and 3:15\u00a0 this afternoon, this blog had it&#8217;s 300,000th read.\u00a0 was wondering if that 300K mark would actually occur on Nov 25th.. the<\/p>\n<p>anniversary that I started writing here.. which was 3 days after Sam&#8217;s<\/p>\n<p>passing. Tat&#8217;s what happened at the 1 year mark.. I had exactly 100,000<\/p>\n<p>viewers on the year anniversary of starting here.. last year, things<\/p>\n<p>had slowed down.. and I was onl at soemthign like 180,000 readers on<\/p>\n<p>the 2nd anniversary.\u00a0 This year I&#8217;m at 300,000 3 weeks early..\u00a0 It&#8217;s a funny landmark.. Kind of meaningless, I know.. but as someone who&#8217;s neurotically obsessed with numbers.. and their occurrence, it was an interesting passing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Here&#8217;s hit count at 9:30 AM (not counting RSS or readers\u00a0 reading 1 of the two copies of the blog .. or reading it on facebook) \n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov0209\/930.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">here it is at 12:30<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov0209\/1230.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">And here just affter coriossing 300K at 3:15 PM <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i147.photobucket.com\/albums\/r319\/johncohn\/nov0209\/315.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 You are probably saying to yourself.. &#8216;who cares&#8217;\u00a0 .. and you&#8217;re right.. But I see significances in all sorts of numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I think there are no real coincidences.. just number sequences we&#8217;ve failed to follow.\u00a0 . I have a ritual whenever a car I&#8217;m driving hits a magic number (eg, a 100K .,, or al digits the same.. eg 1111111) I feel compelled to get out of the car and run around it three times. I only make phen calls on even number seconds.. I only drink out of water glasses which have been filled three times.\u00a0 I see special meaning in the number of hotel rooms that I&#8217;m given . I see portents, good or bad , in times of emails I receives..\u00a0 n phone numbers, in addresses..\u00a0 I subconsciously factor numbers (combination, hotel room\u00a0 numbers, parts of phone numbers) to see if they might be prime numbers&#8230; like my lucky number (911 .. yes.. 911 ) . All in the hope of what ? &#8230; Perhaps in the hope of finding some clue &#8230; some answer &#8230; to this wacky universe.. perhaps of knowing g-d..\u00a0\u00a0 ?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Does that make me a bad person ?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hope not&#8230;.\u00a0 <br \/>OK.. enough.. time for bed. Night folks, night Sam !<br \/>-me<\/p>\n<p>ps. I&#8217; on a panel discussion on Wed night about predictions for the year 2050.. Anyone out there got soem cool predictions ? <\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/center>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I passed an interesting milestone today.. somewhere between 12:30 and 3:15\u00a0 this afternoon, this blog had it&#8217;s 300,000th read.\u00a0 was wondering if that 300K mark would actually occur on Nov 25th.. the anniversary that I started writing here.. which was 3 days after Sam&#8217;s passing. Tat&#8217;s what happened at the 1 year mark.. I had &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2009\/11\/03\/monday-night-300000\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; 300,000<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3027,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions\/3027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}