{"id":76858,"date":"2018-01-01T08:31:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76858"},"modified":"2018-01-01T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:31:58","slug":"the-state-of-the-blog-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76858","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Blog; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to our web traffic counter, we had more than two million unique visitors last year. Their number one destination was our <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?page_id=30655\">Stolen Valor page<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The most popular valor thief, was <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73334\">Tracy Marrow aka Ice-T<\/a>, the next most popular was the perennial favorite, the late, great, <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=24149\">&#8220;Soup Sandwich&#8221; Nick Androsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=76859\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76859\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1-475x333.jpg?resize=475%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1.jpg?resize=475%2C333&amp;ssl=1 475w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1.jpg?resize=768%2C538&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-1.jpg?w=1221&amp;ssl=1 1221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=76860\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76860\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2-233x333.jpg?resize=233%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2.jpg?resize=233%2C333&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/TAH-2.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Following Soup is <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72428\">Travis Wade<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71252\">Dan Rather<\/a> hot on his heels.<\/p>\n<p>We added 242 valor thieves to our pages this year between us and our partners, so the problem doesn&#8217;t seem to be going away, which means we aren&#8217;t going away either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to our web traffic counter, we had more than two million unique visitors last year. 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