{"id":14080,"date":"2026-05-04T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14080"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:47:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:47:28","slug":"my-22nd-blogiversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/my-22nd-blogiversary\/","title":{"rendered":"My 22nd &#8216;Blogiversary&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Blogging is no longer &#8216;the thing&#8217; it used to be in the early &#8216;aughts,&#8217; but it has certainly enriched my life, mainly by attracting like-minded people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among them, and in no particular order: Malcolm Pollack, Vito Caiati, Trudy Vandermolen, Steven Nemes, Vlastimil Vohanka, Lukas Novak, Daniel Novotny, Dmitri Dain, Karl White, Jeff Hammond, Josh Eskew,\u00a0 David Brightly, Edward Buckner, James Soriano, David Klubert, Keith Burgess-Jackson, Michael Gilleland, Horace Jeffery Hodges, Dale Tuggy, Ed Feser, Phil Flemming, Mike Valle . . . I&#8217;ll remember some more tomorrow.\u00a0 I thank you all.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then there are the <em>MavPhil<\/em> &#8216;fallen&#8217; who will not be forgotten: Ray Stahl\u00a0 Bill Tingley, Bill Keezer, Lady Dymphna , Thomas C. Coleman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Living or dead, these are people I never would have met\u00a0 apart from the blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And then there are those I won&#8217;t mention, some of whom succumbed to TDS, and others who turned against me for reasons unknown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging is no longer &#8216;the thing&#8217; it used to be in the early &#8216;aughts,&#8217; but it has certainly enriched my life, mainly by attracting like-minded people. Among them, and in no particular order: Malcolm Pollack, Vito Caiati, Trudy Vandermolen, Steven Nemes, Vlastimil Vohanka, Lukas Novak, Daniel Novotny, Dmitri Dain, Karl White, Jeff Hammond, Josh Eskew,\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/my-22nd-blogiversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My 22nd &#8216;Blogiversary&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14080"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14084,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14080\/revisions\/14084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}