{"id":566,"date":"2010-12-21T08:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/approaching-milestone\/"},"modified":"2010-12-21T08:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T08:43:00","slug":"approaching-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/12\/approaching-milestone.html","title":{"rendered":"Approaching Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flashgameshows.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/milllogo3101finalcl.JPG\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"178\" src=\"https:\/\/flashgameshows.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/milllogo3101finalcl.JPG\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Those few readers who regularly scroll all the way to the bottom of the blog may have noticed the little counter near the bottom left side, and thus may be aware that this blog is approaching an important milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Based on typical numbers of hits per day, there is a slim chance that the number of hits on Exploring Our Matrix (since it relocated to Blogger) will hit one million by Christmas. 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