{"id":72,"date":"2002-10-11T19:59:57-04:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-12T03:59:57+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=72"},"modified":"2002-10-11T19:59:57-04:00","modified_gmt":"2002-10-12T03:59:57+00:00","slug":"welcome-to-my-home-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2002\/10\/11\/welcome-to-my-home-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my home&nbsp;page"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Apparently almost 2.2 million web pages are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22under+construction%22\">under construction<\/a>.  (Most of the top ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22under+construction%22\">references<\/a> are <em>anti<\/em>-under-construction-image pages.)  Only 3600 are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22not+under+construction%22\">not<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>There are a lot (about 120,000 by Google&#8217;s estimate) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22welcome+to+my+page%22\">friendly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22welcome+to+my+home+page%22\">people<\/a> out there on the web who actually welcome you to their pages.  I wonder if they&#8217;re as friendly in person?<\/p>\n\n<p>Just under 2 million people say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=hello+-world\">hello<\/a> (not counting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22hello+world%22\">programmers<\/a>).  Slightly more say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=goodbye\">goodbye<\/a>.  (Several are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22piss+off%22\">quite rude about it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n<p>What can we deduce from these facts?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are about 2.2036 million pages (in English) on the world wide web, most of which are unfinished.<\/li>\n<li>People are happier for you to leave their pages than they are for you to visit them.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve actually read this far, you&#8217;ve obviously overstayed your welcome.  Please leave, or I won&#8217;t bother to fi<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apparently almost 2.2 million web pages are under construction. (Most of the top ten references are anti-under-construction-image pages.) Only 3600 are not. There are a lot (about 120,000 by Google&#8217;s estimate) of friendly people out there on the web who actually welcome you to their pages. I wonder if they&#8217;re as friendly in person? Just&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}