{"id":77,"date":"2005-08-22T00:50:11","date_gmt":"2005-08-22T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=77"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:04:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:04:21","slug":"an-infestation-of-weevils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"An Infestation Of Weevils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered that there are three other weevils in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthlaidbear.com\/\">Truth Laid Bear<\/a> blogospheric <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthlaidbear.com\/ecosystem.php\">Ecosystem<\/a>, all in the top half of the 34,948 blogs listed.  I am a Large Mammal, ranked 1665 &#8212; way down from a couple of years ago, when I was in the top hundred or two.  However, even then I was only a mammal, so I imagine much of the drop has to do with the huge increase in the number of blogs listed.  <a href=\"http:\/\/lesserweevils.blogspot.com\/\">The Lesser of Two Weevils<\/a>, a Catholic blog in Canada, is a Slithering Reptile (8408).  <a href=\"http:\/\/sheweevil.blogspot.com\">the life and loves of a she weevil<\/a> (her orthography, not mine), a miscellaneous blog in Plymouth, England, mostly apolitical but with some Thatcherphobia in the mix, is a Crawly Amphibian (10,825).   Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/weevilstepmother.blogspot.com\/\">Weevil Stepmother<\/a>, also in England (so I assume from references to sixth form and toffee), a personal or family blog that hasn\u2019t been updated since November, is a Flippery Fish (16,998).  Only the last has a weevil picture, but it&#8217;s a good one. So, are weevils overrepresented in the Blogosphere, or is four out of 34,948 about what one would expect?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> (11:46 pm)<\/p>\n<p>For more pictures of weevils, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorweevil.org\/archives\/000231.html\">this old post<\/a>. If you prefer wombats, try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctorweevil.org\/archives\/000546.html\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered that there are three other weevils in the Truth Laid Bear blogospheric Ecosystem, all in the top half of the 34,948 blogs listed. I am a Large Mammal, ranked 1665 &#8212; way down from a couple of years ago, when I was in the top hundred or two. However, even then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metablogular-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}