{"id":993,"date":"2004-06-29T02:47:21","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=993"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"100000-visitors-to-times-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/06\/100000-visitors-to-times-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 visitors to Times &#038; Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times &#038; Seasons will today welcome its 100,000th visitor.  Since we started our web counter shortly after we opened last November, we\u2019ve grown from 8 daily visits to 900.   To mark the 100,000 visitor milestone, I spent some time trying to figure out how much writing has been produced in our seven month stint.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Times &#038; Seasons writers have posted 862 separate entries for a total word count of 405,000.  The Times &#038; Seasons community has written 15,849 comments and, based on a sample of 1264 comments, the average comment has around 140 words.  That means the comments measure a whopping 2,218,000 words.  The total T&#038;S production \u2013 entries plus comments &#8211; is about 2,623,000 words.  If we were a novel, we\u2019d be 10,500 pages long!<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the Book of Mormon has 275,000 words; the KJV Bible has 783,000.  The T&#038;S total is <i>more than double<\/i> the length of the standard works.  (Writing is so much easier now that we don&#8217;t have to use scrolls and metal plates.)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all of the visitors and participants who make Times &#038; Seasons a place to discuss and to think and to learn.  May we all be better because of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times &#038; Seasons will today welcome its 100,000th visitor. Since we started our web counter shortly after we opened last November, we\u2019ve grown from 8 daily visits to 900. To mark the 100,000 visitor milestone, I spent some time trying to figure out how much writing has been produced in our seven month stint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}