{"id":27161,"date":"2014-12-24T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T08:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=27161"},"modified":"2014-12-24T08:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T08:59:58","slug":"thank-you-and-happy-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/12\/24\/thank-you-and-happy-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you and Happy Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am told there is a time to stop blogging, although some of you may have noticed I am not good at identifying it.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, quite a lot of you because last night I got a surprise early Christmas present when this year's total reads on the blog went past what I thought to be 2013's quite exceptional total. I had not expected that given that I thought interest in tax peaked with the G8 summit in June 2013, and so say thank you to all who contributed by reading so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, there have been 1,597,957 reads\u00a0so far this year and topping 1.6 million is, therefore bound to happen. When the 35,000 or so a month who read via blog feeds are added in more than 2 million reads of this blog are likely during 2014. As a writer who has a message he wants to impart that does, of course, please me.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you for sharing some time with me this year.<\/p>\n<p>And I wish you a happy Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Without an absolute promise that I will be quiet throughout the holiday period, because that it pretty unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am told there is a time to stop blogging, although some of you may have noticed I am not good at identifying it. Actually,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/12\/24\/thank-you-and-happy-christmas\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}