{"id":269,"date":"2006-01-08T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/08\/does-it-matter\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:42:13","slug":"does-it-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2006\/01\/does-it-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does It Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog inspired by the words of Martin Luther King, who once remarked : &#8220;<em>Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, when I think about those countless hours spent in composing and posting entries to this site, I find myself wondering if it really matters.\u00a0 Is there any body out there, <em>reading <\/em>what I\u2019m writing about?!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some statistics from the logs of my host provider :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>158 <\/strong>entries till date (since inception)<\/p>\n<p><strong>201 <\/strong>comments till date (since inception)<\/p>\n<p><strong>102 <\/strong>subscribers (rss feeds)<\/p>\n<p><strong>896 <\/strong>Avg. Unique Visitors\/Month (Jan-Dec 2005)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5,402 <\/strong>Avg. Raw Hits\/Month (Jan-Dec 2005)<\/p>\n<p><strong>82<\/strong> visitors (past 24 hours)<\/p>\n<p><strong>293<\/strong> visitors (past week)<\/p>\n<p><strong>699<\/strong> visitors (past month)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Glad to see that at least <em>some <\/em>people are finding it worth their while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this blog inspired by the words of Martin Luther King, who once remarked : &#8220;Our lives begin to end, the day we become silent about things that matter.&#8221; Sometimes, when I think about those countless hours spent in composing and posting entries to this site, I find myself wondering if it really matters.  Is there any body out there, reading what I&#8217;m writing about?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-reflections"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4124,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}