{"id":3196,"date":"2009-02-17T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T23:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2009-02-18T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:45:45","slug":"those-little-things-that-brighten-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/3196","title":{"rendered":"Those Little Things That Brighten Your Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just going through the server logs and found another visitor to my cartoon series, A Coming Out Story, who came here via the following Google search:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<pre>coming out story garrett<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time it&#8217;s happened either.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve had roughly&#8230;oh&#8230;a half dozen or so occurrences of someone coming here looking for my cartoon specifically.&nbsp; That is, some combination of the cartoon name and mine used as a search string.&nbsp; They don&#8217;t know where on the web to find it I reckon, but they know the name of the cartoon and they know the name of the guy who is doing it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just&#8230;amazing.&nbsp; Considering I am not advertising this cartoon <em>At All<\/em>&#8230;&nbsp; I know it&#8217;s been picked up on some cartoon aggregators&#8230;most notibly the list at gaycomics.free.fr.&nbsp; I get lots of traffic from there every day&#8230;mostly people who just check the main page to see if a new episode is up.&nbsp; For them I&#8217;ve just added a set of better progress bars to the page, so people can see how things are moving along, and be reassured that the cartoon hasn&#8217;t been abandoned because I am so slow at getting out new episodes.<\/p>\n<p>But this is new.&nbsp; I get hits all the time on &quot;coming out stories&quot; or &quot;coming out&quot; or &quot;gay coming out story&quot; or &quot;gay teen coming out story&quot;&nbsp; But only recently&#8230;in the past four or five months, have I had any of those searches include my name&#8230;it&#8217;s always my last name&#8230;in the search string.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just&#8230;amazing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just going through the server logs and found another visitor to my cartoon series, A Coming Out Story, who came here via the following Google search: coming out story garrett This isn&#8217;t the first time it&#8217;s happened either.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve had roughly&#8230;oh&#8230;a half dozen or so occurrences of someone coming here looking for my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,52],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-a-coming-out-story","tag-cartooning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}