{"id":20516,"date":"2011-03-22T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=20516"},"modified":"2011-03-22T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T20:20:57","slug":"annualish-wist-tabulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/annualish-wist-tabulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Annualish WIST tabulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

So in my copious free time, I run a website for collecting quotations. Or, rather, a website where I indulge that hobby of mine — WIST<\/a> (Wish I’d Said That).\u00a0 I just did my more-or-less annual review of numbers<\/a> and what quotes are most popular … and it’s remarkable to me that I’m at over 9,000 quote collected (and researched for sourcing).<\/p>\n

Actually what’s remarkable to me is how consistent I’ve been at adding to it for the past several years.<\/p>\n

It’s a never-ending activity, but most good hobbies are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So in my copious free time, I run a website for collecting quotations. Or, rather, a website where I indulge that hobby of mine — WIST (Wish I’d Said That).\u00a0 I just did my more-or-less annual review of numbers and what quotes are most popular … and it’s remarkable to me that I’m at over … Continue reading “Annualish WIST tabulation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-20516","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":129922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/one-of-my-favorite-quotations.html","url_meta":{"origin":20516,"position":0},"title":"One of my favorite quotations","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Feb-16 9:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"When I tell people I collect quotation, the immediate question is, \"What's your favorite?\" And I always stand there and stammer and drool a bit while my mind tries to sift through the thousand I've curated.I need to keep this one in my back pocket, since it really is (a)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132603,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/some-words-of-wisdom-for-the-day.html","url_meta":{"origin":20516,"position":1},"title":"Some words of wisdom for the day","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-17 5:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And, in particular, for the new President. 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