{"id":4974,"date":"2010-12-13T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/13\/i-lost-bet-and-im-happy-about-i\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:39","slug":"i-lost-bet-and-im-happy-about-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"I Lost A Bet And I&#8217;m Happy About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18485,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Trading_Places&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Trading_Places&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.snowflakesinhell.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5803,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.saysuncle.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.saysuncle.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5832,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/pajamasmedia.com\\\/instapundit&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/pajamasmedia.com\\\/instapundit&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18486,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.armsandthelaw.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260330145933\\\/https:\\\/\\\/armsandthelaw.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:33:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:33:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11881,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/waronguns.blogspot.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/waronguns.blogspot.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Complementary Spouse and I had a bet on whether I would have 100,000 visits to this blog before the end of 2010. I think the total was in the 60,000 range when we made the bet. Obviously, she had more faith in me than I did. The 100,000th visitor was yesterday evening and was from the state of Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Our bet was for $1 just like in the Dan Ackroyd &#8211; Eddie Murphy movie <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trading_Places\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trading Places<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/meter.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"116\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/meter.gif\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nAs I said, I lost the bet and I&#8217;m happy about it. Thanks to all who have visited and continue to visit this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Also, thanks are due to other bloggers like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snowflakesinhell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sebastian<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SayUncle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instapundit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armsandthelaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dave Hardy<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Codrea<\/a> who have linked to my posts here. Without them and their links to this blog, I&#8217;d still be puttering along with a few hits a day.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, thanks to the Complementary Spouse aka The Blog Widow for her faith in me and this blog.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complementary Spouse and I had a bet on whether I would have 100,000 visits to this blog before&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4022,4508],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-000th-visitor","tag-4508"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}