{"id":1169,"date":"2015-12-24T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2015-12-24T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T16:07:01","slug":"one-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"One Year Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDecember 24 marks the one year anniversary of my second first post*!<\/p>\n

I want to take a moment to thank all those who have read through my posts and especially those who have provided a comment or three.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

Its been an amazing year really.\u00a0 I’ve actually posted 146 items and received 123 comments, collected almost 70 Martini \/ Cocktail quotes, and 6 Martini jokes (I need more!!!).<\/p>\n

When I started I was worried that I’d run out of things to say.\u00a0 Fortunately, being of the opinionated sort, I found more about which to opine that I originally thought I would.<\/p>\n

And the scope of blog has grown a bit.\u00a0 Originally I believed I’d sporadically comment about Martinis with an occasional Bar review.\u00a0 Then more bar reviews came along and became more extensive.\u00a0 Somewhere I started adding Random Martini Quotes and that was a lot of fun.\u00a0\u00a0 Finally I started reviewing not just a bar’s Martini capabilities but also providing a grade on their Gin selection.<\/p>\n

I also created a Twitter account (@Shkn_Nt_Strrd<\/a>) to go along with this blog.\u00a0 I thought they would mirror each other, so every time I post something I link it to @Shkn_Nt_Strrd.\u00a0 But the twitter account has grown beyond just Martinis.\u00a0 Its tag line is “Celebrating the finer things in life!”.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure what the future holds but I will keep this blog going.\u00a0 Perhaps I won’t post quite as much …. but who knows.\u00a0 I’ve been having fun with this and I don’t see that changing.<\/p>\n

Again, many thanks to all of my readers.<\/p>\n

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* For those of you wondering what ‘second first’ post means I’ll take a moment to give some ancient history.<\/p>\n

My very first post was actually titled Welcome <\/a>and occurred on August 21, 2013.\u00a0 I had just bought the web address and loaded up WordPress and was eager to get going.\u00a0 But I really had no idea what I was doing and ….. then I got lost into trying to create the ‘perfect’ web page.\u00a0 During the end of 2013 and the beginning of 2014 I spent a lot of mental effort thinking about, researching ‘hot to’, and playing with the format of this blog.\u00a0 I thought I needed the web page totally set up before I started writhing.\u00a0\u00a0 Ultimately I made very little progress either in writing or designing.<\/p>\n

Somewhere near the end of 2014 I had an epiphany of sorts.\u00a0 I realized that I wanted to write about martinis and I wasn’t doing that.\u00a0 I still didn’t know what I was doing, but I started over and figured I’d jump in and learn about the visuals and formatting as I was writing and enjoying the Martinis…. and so my “second first” post occurred December 24, 2014 and was titled Introduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December 24 marks the one year anniversary of my second first post*! I want to take a moment to thank all those who have read through my posts and especially those who have provided a comment or three.\u00a0 Thank you. … Continue reading →<\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[3,38,9],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2510,"url":"http:\/\/shakennotstirred.us\/?p=2510","url_meta":{"origin":1169,"position":0},"title":"5th Anniversary","author":"wlmoon58","date":"December 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, December 24th, marks the 5th anniversary of this Blog. I have to admit that when I started this adventure I never imagined it would live this long. 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