{"id":7407,"date":"2023-07-17T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T04:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2023-07-17T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T04:09:13","slug":"seventeenth-blogiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/seventeenth-blogiversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeenth Blogiversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/xvii-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1010\" height=\"287\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/xvii-rocks.jpg 1010w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/xvii-rocks-300x85.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/xvii-rocks-768x218.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I think we will not make a big deal out of the fact that VERNABOB.COM has actually been in existence for over 20 years, as that&#8217;s not germane to the blogosphere because it was not a blogging platform originally; that came a few years later. However, we CAN celebrate the seventeenth anniversary of posting as a weblog today, July 17, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still  not up to blogging daily, but we will recognize significant events and life happenings from time to time. Here is a photo from our first month as bloggers &#8211; Verna and Bob at Grand Canyon in 2006. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20060722-grandcanyon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20060722-grandcanyon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20060722-grandcanyon.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20060722-grandcanyon-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20060722-grandcanyon-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh Look! A Gila Woodpecker!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230707-male-gila-woodpecker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230707-male-gila-woodpecker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230707-male-gila-woodpecker.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230707-male-gila-woodpecker-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/20230707-male-gila-woodpecker-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I think we will not make a big deal out of the fact that VERNABOB.COM has actually been in existence for over 20 years, as&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7412,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions\/7412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}