{"id":5043,"date":"2006-09-08T18:00:48","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2006-09-08T18:00:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T18:00:48","slug":"tongues-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5043","title":{"rendered":"Tongues of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I wrote a lightweight thriller called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/TonguesofFire.htm\">Tongues of Fire<\/a>. I wrote it for fun and my wife&#8217;s entertainment, and after an unsuccessful attempt to publish it, I put it on this website for free downloading. In August, the main page of the novel received 917 visits. In July, there were 804. I know those are not huge numbers, and I realize that they include repeat visits, hits from &#8220;bots,&#8221; mistaken referrals from Google, etc. Still, as the nerds say, I&#8217;m getting a &#8220;nontrivial&#8221; number of visitors. As far as Google knows, there&#8217;s only one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-online-novels.com\/\">external link<\/a> to the novel&#8211;and that&#8217;s just an item on a long list of free books. No one ever emails me about it or leaves a comment on the webpage. I&#8217;m trying to guess: Who visits? Why? What do they think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I wrote a lightweight thriller called Tongues of Fire. I wrote it for fun and my wife&#8217;s entertainment, and after an unsuccessful attempt to publish it, I put it on this website for free downloading. In August, the main page of the novel received 917 visits. In July, there were 804. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}