{"id":3745,"date":"2016-11-09T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=3745"},"modified":"2016-11-09T09:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T14:44:25","slug":"eight-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3745","title":{"rendered":"Eight Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"13\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/Eight-Birthday.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"13\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, here it is November 9th. We have a new President-elect Trump and one doozy of a national election is now over. So today it&#8217;s time for some &#8220;real&#8221; news. Today is the day I celebrate the \u201cbirthday\u201d of the Huletts Current. It\u2019s now been exactly eight years since my first post in 2008. It&#8217;s been slow over the last few weeks but the site just went over 116,000 hits starting from January 1st, which has surpassed any previous year&#8217;s total.<\/p>\n<p>I love hearing from everyone with story ideas, news and community &#8220;goings-on.&#8221; I enjoy learning from you and sharing your thoughts and pictures about Huletts. It&#8217;s a unique place, and I am thankful for all those who have made the site so successful.<\/p>\n<p>As is my custom, here are the most read posts from the past year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3636\" target=\"_blank\">1.) Fire on Nobles Island Extinguished<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3506\" target=\"_blank\">2.) Pictures from the 2015 Huletts Christmas Party<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3648\" target=\"_blank\">3.) House on Mountain Burns Overnight<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3634\" target=\"_blank\">4.) Bridge Dedication in Memory of Maynard Rushia Well Attended<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3633\" target=\"_blank\">5.) County Route 6B Bridge Update<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3516\" target=\"_blank\">6.) Pictures from the 2015 Dresden Christmas Party <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3667\" target=\"_blank\">7.) Crosses Placed at Route 22 Fatal Crash<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3687\" target=\"_blank\">8.) Pictures from the HLVFC Annual \u201cOpen House\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3699\" target=\"_blank\">9.) AED\u2019s Arrive \u2013 Goal Achieved<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3582\" target=\"_blank\">10.) Work Finished to Prevent Post Office Parking Flooding <\/a><\/p>\n<p>So thanks again for reading and now onto year nine!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here it is November 9th. We have a new President-elect Trump and one doozy of a national election is now over. So today it&#8217;s time for some &#8220;real&#8221; news. Today is the day I celebrate the \u201cbirthday\u201d of the Huletts Current. It\u2019s now been exactly eight years since my first post in 2008. It&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Eight Years Old&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-the-landing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}