{"id":7806,"date":"2012-07-23T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=7806"},"modified":"2012-07-23T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:45:03","slug":"happy-3rd-anniversary-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7806","title":{"rendered":"Happy 3rd Anniversary to Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3dogs.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7807\" title=\"3dogs\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/3dogs-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Three years ago today, I accepted a challenge from Mrs. BurgerDogBoy. \u00a0She had started a marketing company the year before, specializing in advising on social media, and I had spent most of my career in &#8220;traditional media.&#8221; \u00a0 I pooh-poohed the influence of blogs, twitter, facebook and such, and she challenged me to take a single topic I am passionate about, and to start a blog about it.<\/p>\n<p>Three years, thousands of posts, thousands of followers later, this site, on a weekly basis, \u00a0draws thousands of readers weekly from 50 states, 70+ countries, brings in revenue to our household, brings interesting products to our mailbox to try, and lots and lots of invitations to restaurants. \u00a0So many that we can&#8217;t keep up.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been fun hearing from lovers of burgers, hot dogs, and pizza from all over the world, and yes, we&#8217;ll keep at it, soon launching a complete redesign of the site, with more information, pix, and fun promos and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for hanging out with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago today, I accepted a challenge from Mrs. BurgerDogBoy. \u00a0She had started a marketing company the year before, specializing in advising on social media, and I had spent most of my career in &#8220;traditional media.&#8221; \u00a0 I pooh-poohed the influence of blogs, twitter, facebook and such, and she challenged me to take a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=7806\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 3rd Anniversary to Us!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,15,16,34,22,26],"tags":[325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}