{"id":512,"date":"2019-12-29T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=512"},"modified":"2019-12-28T16:59:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T23:59:35","slug":"silent-readership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/silent-readership\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent readership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m curious about something. Actually I&#8217;m curious about a LOT of things; just ask my Canadian Skip Patrol instructors \ud83d\ude1b<br>But I&#8217;m REALLY curious about one thing when it comes to this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can see there are a decent number of readers &amp; views thanks to the stats that WordPress gives me. But, there&#8217;s very few comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m really curious why people don&#8217;t comment. Do the same things that make it so you don&#8217;t comment here also apply to other venues like the Xojo forums ? The reason I ask is that, as anyone who knows me well can vouch for, when I have something to say I say it. And if I have a strong opinion about something its nearly impossible to get me to shut up. Again you can ask anyone who knows me well &#8211; and if it&#8217;s Bob&#8217;s Keeney reading this I&#8217;m 100 sure he&#8217;s just shaking his head going &#8220;Yup!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even just a &#8220;Hey thanks I read that post and it was informative&#8221; is great feedback to get. Or &#8220;Hey I found a typo&#8221;. And yeah you can tell me I&#8217;m being dumb if I post something dumb \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what is it that keeps you from commenting ? And yes I get the irony of asking people who don&#8217;t comment on other posts to comment on this one \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m curious about something. Actually I&#8217;m curious about a LOT of things; just ask my Canadian Skip Patrol instructors \ud83d\ude1bBut I&#8217;m REALLY curious about one thing when it comes to this blog. I can see there are a decent number of readers &amp; views thanks to the stats that WordPress gives me. But, there&#8217;s very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/29\/silent-readership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silent readership&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}