{"id":33930,"date":"2016-07-02T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=33930"},"modified":"2016-07-02T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:23:10","slug":"11-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/02\/11-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"11.2 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I admit to being a bit of a geek. That must explain why in the last few minutes I did something I have not ever tried before.<\/p>\n<p>I copied five pages of comments on the blog into Word.<\/p>\n<p>I then found that they averaged almost exactly 2,500 words a page, but some of those were blog titles and email addresses, and so on. So I reduced that figure to 2,200 a page to allow for that.<\/p>\n<p>There are 5,093 pages of comments on this blog.<\/p>\n<p>That's likely to be 11.2 million words.<\/p>\n<p>As a sanity check I divided that by the 102,000 total number of comments published (near enough). That's 110 words a comment, which seemed fair.<\/p>\n<p>Put that 11.2 million words another way and it is at least 160 books worth of comments.<\/p>\n<p>I am not looking to publish them though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit to being a bit of a geek. That must explain why in the last few minutes I did something I have not ever<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/02\/11-2-million\/\"><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-33930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930","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=33930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}