{"id":34390,"date":"2023-04-30T09:54:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=34390"},"modified":"2023-04-30T09:54:33","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T13:54:33","slug":"2014s-9-11-spike-was-weird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/04\/30\/2014s-9-11-spike-was-weird.html","title":{"rendered":"2014&#8217;s 9\/11 Spike Was Weird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember if I ever posted this. While rummaging through Amazon Drive, which is closing at the end of this year, I spotted this bar graph showing the spike in web traffic one of my sites got on September 11 and 12, 2014. The graph for those two days somewhat eerily evokes the profile of the old Twin Towers.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34391\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2023\/04\/30\/2014s-9-11-spike-was-weird.html\/9-11-spike\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9-11-spike.jpg?fit=473%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"473,323\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"9\/11 spike in traffic looked like the Twin Towers\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9-11-spike.jpg?fit=473%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34391\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9-11-spike.jpg?resize=473%2C323&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"9\/11 spike in traffic looked like the Twin Towers\" width=\"473\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9-11-spike.jpg?w=473&amp;ssl=1 473w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9-11-spike.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bar graph showing the spike in web traffic one of my sites got on September 11 and September 12, 2014 somewhat eerily evokes the profile of the old Twin Towers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","category-digital-hoarding","category-flashback","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/9-11-spike.jpg?fit=473%2C323&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8WG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34392,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390\/revisions\/34392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}