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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSometime over the last week, WIST gained its 10,000th quotation. There's a count kept in the sidebar, but it's a bit deceptive because it includes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I maintain a quotations database as a hobby and labor of love, and I just rolled over the 10,000 entries mark. It's always nice (and\/or frightening) to see one's compulsive activities reach some new plateau of over-achievement. #ddtb Embedded Link ~~Admin – 10,000 quotations, huzzah! | WIST Quotations Sometime over the last week, WIST gained … Continue reading “A personal (and obsessional) milestone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[106,33],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-wist","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26557,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/quotations-damn-quotations-and-statistics.html","url_meta":{"origin":25753,"position":0},"title":"Quotations, Damn Quotations, and Statistics","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-12 3:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"My annual checkpoint for my \"WIST\" (Wish I'd Said That) quotations site (http:\/\/wist.info). 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