{"id":306,"date":"2007-10-11T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/its-love-our-lurkers-day-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T08:44:15","slug":"its-love-our-lurkers-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/its-love-our-lurkers-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Love Our Lurkers Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/lolday.gif' alt='LOL Day' \/><\/p>\n<p>Bonnie from my <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomsmarts.blogspot.com\/\" target=_blank>My Bottom Smarts<\/a> has announced the second annual Love Our Lurkers Day for Friday, October 12!  Yay!  She&#8217;s got a good number of bloggers joining in (which <a href=\"http:\/\/bottomsmarts.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/love-our-lurkers-day.html\" target=_blank>she&#8217;s listing<\/a> as blogs join in).  If you can, go check out what&#8217;s happening across the spanko blogosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The point of LOL Day is to draw out the large number of readers who come by to read but don&#8217;t comment.  I understand completely because I know how it is.  You see, I&#8217;m a lurker, too.  But I&#8217;ve found that no matter who it is, anytime I come out of the woodwork to comment, I&#8217;m always greeted with open arms.  It&#8217;s always a pleasant surprise.  <\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;m going to do my best to go out and say &#8220;Hi&#8221; to the bloggers I&#8217;ve been taking for granted and maybe greeting some of the ones I haven&#8217;t met before.  It should be fun.  You should join in!  It&#8217;s going to be like a big open house out there in spanko blogland.<\/p>\n<p>I know I haven&#8217;t been the most reliable blogger in the world lately, but I&#8217;m trying to get back into the swing of things.  I know there&#8217;s people out there still reading though and I want to thank all of you for that!  So even if you&#8217;re not a lurker, you can say hi anyway.  It&#8217;ll be like old pals meeting up again.  <\/p>\n<p>I considered making this into a competition since y&#8217;all know how much I love that sort of thing.  I thought one swat per comment ought to be fun.  But then I wasn&#8217;t sure that was such a good idea since we have that new paddle and all.  Besides, it wouldn&#8217;t be fair.  I wouldn&#8217;t know if you commented because you like me or if you just wanted me to get spanked a lot. *wink*<\/p>\n<p>Also I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/05\/spank-vote-06\/\" target=_blank>the last time I tried that<\/a>.  That was a bit surprising.  I had no idea how much I was loved by my readers.  That much love can make a girl&#8217;s bottom sore!  <\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230;now I can&#8217;t remember, was I trying to talk myself out of or into that swat per comment deal?  Let me think&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll sort it out eventually.  In the meantime, everybody go out there and show some comment love around the blogs!  I&#8217;ll be out there somewhere doing the same. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonnie from my My Bottom Smarts has announced the second annual Love Our Lurkers Day for Friday, October 12! Yay! She&#8217;s got a good number of bloggers joining in (which she&#8217;s listing as blogs join in). If you can, go <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/11\/its-love-our-lurkers-day-2\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.spankingbethie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}