{"id":13393,"date":"2009-01-01T23:20:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T06:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2009\/01\/01\/quotes-by-the-numbers.html"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:20:26","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T06:20:26","slug":"quotes_by_the_numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/quotes_by_the_numbers.html","title":{"rendered":"Quotes by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wist.info\/misc\/admin_1\/026288.html\" target=\"_blank\">ran the numbers<\/a> on my quotations database, WIST, yesterday, the first time since February 2007.&nbsp; I&#8217;m currently at 6600 quotations, vs. the 5100 I was at back then. Huzzah. WIST is one of my &#8220;success stories&#8221; so far as pastimes go, something I actually get to and keep updated on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>The top ten authors (by quote count) are from, almost exclusively, dead white guys (there&#8217;s one live one): Shakespeare, Twain, Bertrand Russell, CS Lewis, Shaw, Chesterton, Emerson, Bill Watterson, Bierce, and Franklin. Still, not a bad group to rhetorically pal around with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went and ran the numbers on my quotations database, WIST, yesterday, the first time since February 2007.&nbsp; I&#8217;m currently at 6600 quotations, vs. the 5100 I was at back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32812,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/quotations-and-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":13393,"position":0},"title":"Quotations and Numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-Mar-13 9:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My annual report (mostly to myself) on how my quotations database (WIST -- \"Wish I'd Said That\") is doing. 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