{"id":1331,"date":"2014-06-12T23:51:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2014-06-12T23:51:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T03:51:50","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/5\/","title":{"rendered":"5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week marked this blog’s fifth anniversary. It largely came and went without much notice from myself. I happened to see last month that my first post<\/a> was 06.03.09, and then I remembered the date a couple days ago. I’m impressed that, ~175 posts later this thing is still stumbling along. Without getting into too much retrospective sentimentality, a few thoughts…<\/p>\n

I blogged quietly and inconsistently the first ~18 months or so. While the focus remained the same – music only – I didn’t “advertise” outside of a link from my main website. That changed in 2010 when, after starting to occasionally review albums<\/a>, two reviews were unexpectedly highlighted by the artists themselves via social media within a couple weeks of each other. The first was my review of PRISM Quartet’s Antiphony <\/em><\/a>and the second was Dave Liebman’s Joy: The Music of John Coltrane<\/em><\/a>. (Oddly enough, PRISM and Lieb are playing together tonight<\/a> in NYC.) I’m proud of the fact that they each remain one of the higher-ranking\/trafficked reviews for said albums. That was when I realized that, at least occasionally, people were reading this, and so I started to take to social media to promote posts, ensure respectable linking etiquette, and to write with more regularity.<\/p>\n

Including the above, some posts have received much more traffic than I would’ve ever anticipated, particularly those on Wagner & Seinfeld<\/a>, Tord Gustavsen Quartet’s Chicago concert<\/a>, Scent of Soil’s eponymous album<\/a>, and earplugs<\/a>. And of course a number of others that I thought would get some eyes went unnoticed. Also surprisingly, some posts have been put me in touch with some great and interesting folks whom I otherwise would’ve have been in contact with. (Unfortunately, when resuscitating my site after a hack late last year, I lost a number of the comments from these folks – none have been deleted by me. Good thing I still have the emails and any subsequent correspondence.)<\/p>\n

Much to my continued amazement, traffic and RSS subscriptions continue to increase slowly but surely. I’m just glad that the site is still up and running – I had feared it would’ve become just another abandoned site. And, fortunately, it remains more than just a link farm. Often blogs (d)evolve into a series of entries pointing to other articles. Here’s to hoping that continues to be avoided. Much like The Dish<\/em><\/a> – though on a\u00a0much<\/strong> smaller scale – the goal is (hopefully) consistently thoughtful content and not a race for clickthroughs.<\/p>\n

For readers old and new and regular and sporadic alike, thank you very much for reading. Onward and upward…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week marked this blog’s fifth anniversary. It largely came and went without much notice from myself. I happened to see last month that my first post was 06.03.09, and then I remembered the date a couple days ago. I’m impressed that, ~175 posts later this thing is still stumbling along. Without getting into too […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelteager.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}