{"id":6683,"date":"2015-11-01T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2015-10-27T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T20:09:52","slug":"stones-staying-silent-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6683","title":{"rendered":"Stones Staying Silent &#8230; For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen, if you&#8217;re a regular reader of this blog, participation has dropped off quite a bit from our heyday.\u00a0I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while now if we should shelve the blog entirely. My posts are basically the transcript of portions of my podcast, and I&#8217;ve spent more time with that than blogging; either on my personal blog or SCO. I think there has been something of the decline of blogging except by the big media guys or independent bloggers with a huge following. Hey, even the venerable InstaPundit joined the Pajamas Media group.<\/p>\n<p>SCO has had great a 10-year run; 3 under Rick Brady and 7 under me (I had no idea it had been that long). But it&#8217;s been a few years since it&#8217;s been a vibrant blog, both regarding writing as well as attracting comments. So I think it best that, at this point, we give the old girl a rest.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll keep the site up, and if we decide to relaunch sometime in the future, we&#8217;ll just pick up where we left off. Or perhaps we&#8217;ll do something completely different; a podcast, perhaps?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we want to thank all our readers for your time and support. And whatever you do, keep crying out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have seen, if you&#8217;re a regular reader of this blog, participation has dropped off quite a bit from our heyday.\u00a0I&#8217;ve been wondering for a while now if we should shelve the blog entirely. My posts are basically the transcript of portions of my podcast, and I&#8217;ve spent more time with that than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}