{"id":137,"date":"2005-09-05T01:29:25","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T00:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-09-05T01:29:25","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T00:29:25","slug":"hello-swedes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Hello Swedes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(All 30 of you.)<\/p>\n<p>In case anyone&#8217;s interested, here&#8217;s who&#8217;s reading this:<\/p>\n<p>UNITED STATES (US)\t20934 (taking over the world)<br \/>\nUNITED KINGDOM (UK)\t8668 (I&#8217;d be disappointed if no-one from the UK was visiting)<br \/>\nSWITZERLAND (CH)\t2843 (how do you make a Swiss roll? Sneak up on him with a bap&#8230;)<br \/>\nIndeterminable\t1536 (I know the feeling)<br \/>\nAUSTRALIA (AU)\t1205 (G&#8217;day, barbie, shrimp, tinnie)<br \/>\nTURKEY (TR)\t1010 (This rather surprised me. I have never in my life thought &#8216;Ah-ha! This will appeal to my Turkish visitors!)<br \/>\nSINGAPORE (SG)\t790 (&#8216;Ello you lot! It&#8217;s nice to see the far east comes here too)<br \/>\nUNITED KINGDOM (GB)\t731 (and this is different from &#8216;UK&#8217; how? Did the software mean to say Ireland? I doubt the Irish would be very happy about being lumped in with us.)<br \/>\nNETHERLANDS (NL)\t640 (I heard this week that &#8216;sucking a monkey&#8217; is slang for drinking beer in Dutch. Is this true?)<br \/>\nCHINA (CN)\t587 (You mean I&#8217;ve not been blocked by your goverment yet? I really must try harder&#8230;)<br \/>\nSERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (CS)\t556 (&#8216;Nice to have you on here. Again, not a country that I&#8217;ve really had in mind, but I&#8217;m happy to see you here)<br \/>\nGERMANY (DE)\t502 (Guten tag&#8230; Oh dear, I really can&#8217;t remember much German, clearly you all know more English than I know Deutsche)<br \/>\nCANADA (CA)\t380 (See you aboot. Gawd bless yer cotton socks. Canada: the sane bit of North America)<br \/>\nJAPAN (JP)\t313 (Konichiwa! Okay, so everyone that I know has visited my site from Japan has been living on US military bases there, but it&#8217;s nice to be known in the country that inspired me with its comics back when I was a tiny little boy)<br \/>\nISRAEL (IL)\t277 (Sorry to be political, but I hope that all the unsettling has been worth it for everyone&#8217;s sake. It wouldn&#8217;t have been my solution, but it&#8217;s happened, so I really hope it works and there will finally be peace for everyone.)<br \/>\nRUSSIAN FEDERATION (RU)\t256 (huuuuuuuge country, feeeeeeeew people. Hi Russia!)<br \/>\nITALY (IT)\t256 (Bounjourno! I did learn a little Italian for a recent trip there, but it&#8217;s rapidly vanishing again)<br \/>\nIRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF (IR)\t199 (More from the middle east. It&#8217;s great to have you here. If the world can&#8217;t get together to have a laugh then we&#8217;re really in trouble.)<br \/>\nBRAZIL (BR)\t161 (Ah, the first country listed from South America. I&#8217;ve spent a long time looking at you on <a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">Google Earth<\/a>. You have a very beautiful country. I hope we can all find a way to keep it so green!)<br \/>\nTHAILAND (TH)\t117 (I hear online gaming is big in Thailand, so I guess it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to see visitors from them to my website, but again it&#8217;s not one that I anticipated)<br \/>\nBELGIUM (BE)\t108 (How strange that you tie with India)<br \/>\nINDIA (IN)\t108 (How strange that you tie with Belgium)<br \/>\nTAIWAN (TW)\t98 (I&#8217;m running out of comments)<br \/>\nSAUDI ARABIA (SA)\t96<br \/>\nCOLOMBIA (CO)\t83 (Woo hoo! More from South America!)<br \/>\nSPAIN (ES)\t75<br \/>\nMEXICO (MX)\t70<br \/>\nFRANCE (FR)\t61 (61. <strong>61?!?!?!<\/strong> Is that the best that my neighbouring country can do? I have three times more people visiting from Iran than France, and it&#8217;s probably a capital offence to visit my site over there!!)<br \/>\nGREECE (GR)\t53<br \/>\nPOLAND (PL)\t43<br \/>\nEUROPEAN UNION (EU)\t40 (Err, I didn&#8217;t realise this is a country these days&#8230;?)<br \/>\nAUSTRIA (AT)\t37<br \/>\nNEW ZEALAND (NZ)\t35<br \/>\nHONG KONG (HK)\t33<br \/>\nBANGLADESH (BD)\t32<br \/>\nSWEDEN (SE)\t30 (Netherlands 640, Germany 502, Sweden 30. Apparently I do something that most Swedes don&#8217;t like.)<\/p>\n<p>So, as I said at the beginning, hello Sweden, all 30 of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(All 30 of you.) In case anyone&#8217;s interested, here&#8217;s who&#8217;s reading this: UNITED STATES (US) 20934 (taking over the world) UNITED KINGDOM (UK) 8668 (I&#8217;d be disappointed if no-one from the UK was visiting) SWITZERLAND (CH) 2843 (how do you make a Swiss roll? Sneak up on him with a bap&#8230;) Indeterminable 1536 (I know &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hello Swedes!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5bQqr-2d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matazone.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}