{"id":28223,"date":"2026-02-18T22:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28223"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:14:28","slug":"6-8m-views-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28223","title":{"rendered":"6.8M views and counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the Colbert \/ Talarico interview now has 6.8 million views on YouTube, and the number is still going up. I learned today that more people have now watched yesterday&#8217;s interview than watched Colbert&#8217;s interview with Taylor Swift in December.<\/p>\n<p>This is democracy in action folks, the voice of the people. And when the people decide to speak, it&#8217;s a good idea to listen.<\/p>\n<p>I love democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the Colbert \/ Talarico interview now has 6.8 million views on YouTube, and the number is still going up. I learned today that more people have now watched yesterday&#8217;s interview than watched Colbert&#8217;s interview with Taylor Swift in December. This is democracy in action folks, the voice of the people. And when the people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;6.8M views and counting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28224,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28223\/revisions\/28224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}