{"id":544,"date":"2011-11-10T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:25:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:25:31","slug":"indifference-towards-my-lurkers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/indifference-towards-my-lurkers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Indifference Towards My Lurkers Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s no good. I just don&#8217;t have it in me to be all cheery and supportive and welcoming, in the manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomsmarts.blogspot.com\/2011\/11\/sixth-annual-love-our-lurkers-day.html\">Bonnie&#8217;s genuinely meme-ish idea<\/a>. Anyway, if my stats are any guide \u2014 and if they&#8217;re not, why do I have them? \u2014 most of the hits to this blog are from people looking for a bit of a SpankingTube-assisted wank, who end up at <a href=\"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-problem-with-spankingtubecom\/\">this post<\/a>, disappointed and unwanked.<\/p>\n<p>If I tried to be festive, you wouldn&#8217;t believe it anyway, would you? And I&#8217;d just come across as desperate for attention. Either I secretly would love lots of lurkers to provide me with affirmation, but am pathologically unable to summon up the sincerity or to admit a need for affirmation; or I just don&#8217;t care hugely. You&#8217;ll have to decide. Besides, if I got masses of regular feedback, I&#8217;d feel pressure to be all, you know, entertaining and friendly and nice, and then we&#8217;d all lose respect for me.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s it. Delurk. Or don&#8217;t. See if I care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s no good. I just don&#8217;t have it in me to be all cheery and supportive and welcoming, in the manner of Bonnie&#8217;s genuinely meme-ish idea. Anyway, if my stats are any guide \u2014 and if they&#8217;re not, why do I have them? \u2014 most of the hits to this blog are from people &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/northgare.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}