{"id":1700,"date":"2008-04-23T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/04\/23\/happy-anniversary-to-me\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T17:53:19","slug":"happy-anniversary-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary (to me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" title=\"chris_murakami.jpg\" id=\"image1699\" alt=\"chris_murakami.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/chris_murakami.jpg\" \/>It&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2002_04_01_archive.shtml\"><strong>6 years to the day since I started blogging at Comics212<\/strong><\/a>. I&#8217;m a considerably better writer at this point, I think. I actually started writing a column for 212.net in December if 1997, so I guess that was my official serialized writing debut (10 years!), but it wasn&#8217;t until April 23 2002 that the blogger software roared to life. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d originally planned to do like a whole big&#8230; thing&#8230; today, sort of a tour through some of my favourite things, but it didn&#8217;t work out. Up until I started writing this I was a bit disappointed about that, but I&#8217;ve just realized that the reason I haven&#8217;t had time to put this stuff together is because I&#8217;ve been so busy actually doing all of the stuff I used to talk about. The events, the promotion of worthwhile comics and graphic novels, developing new formats and new outlets and all of that. I&#8217;m super, super proud of everything I&#8217;ve accomplished over the last few years, and while I may still completely fuck it up every once in a while, things are going better than ever. Thanks to everyone for reading and linking and what-not over the years, and for all the kind words I continue to receive.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to six more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 6 years to the day since I started blogging at Comics212. I&#8217;m a considerably better writer at this point, I think. I actually started writing a column for 212.net in December if 1997, so I guess that was my official serialized writing debut (10 years!), but it wasn&#8217;t until April 23 2002 that the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1700\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Anniversary (to me)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}