{"id":395,"date":"2005-03-28T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=395"},"modified":"2005-03-28T04:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-28T04:38:00","slug":"395","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Another anniversary<\/strong><\/p>\n

I let my second “blogiversary” go by unheralded, but the local daily paper did annoint me an http:\/\/www.chieftain.com\/life\/1111985225\/1″>expert on blogging<\/a>, thanks to CSU-Pueblo alumna Gretchin Lair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In honor of the blogiversary, here is the obligatory posting about “weird search engine results leading people to my blog.” <\/p>\n

In my case, it was “Gerald Gardner Pueblo Colorado”. (A lot of the fun would be gone if people knew how to use Google’s advanced search page intelligently.)<\/p>\n

To me, of course, “Gerald Gardner” means only him<\/a>. And while he did visit the United States once in the late 1940s, he was never in Pueblo. Is there some Puebloan who occasionally gets odd looks when he tells strangers his name?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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