{"id":2291,"date":"2012-06-09T06:03:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T10:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/onlyyork\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2012-06-09T06:03:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T10:03:40","slug":"5-years-of-only-in-york-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/onlyyork\/5-years-of-only-in-york-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Only in York County is 5 years old today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago today, I made the first post on Only in York County. Just for fun, here&#8217;s a look at some &#8220;then-and-now&#8221; facts! (More post highlights can be found <a href=\"\/onlyyork\/2010\/12\/31\/wrapping-up-2010-in-york-count\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"10\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\">\n<tr style=\"background-color:#cccccc;padding:5px\">\n<td width=\"50%\" valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\"><b>THEN<\/b><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\"><b>NOW<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"padding:5px\">\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">Our daughter, Sarah, was 7 years old and had just finished the first grade.<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:5px\">Sarah is 12 and finished sixth grade as a homeschooler last month.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#cccccc;padding:5px\">\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">The national average gas price was $3.052.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">Try taking that up a bit &#8211; like 50 cents to a dollar.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"padding:5px\">\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">Most of my blog posts were about &#8220;Yorkisms,&#8221; with some profiles of local towns and a few &#8220;what it used to be&#8221; ideas thrown in for good measure.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">That whole &#8220;what it used to be&#8221; idea really caught on, as did my looks into local food traditions. <a href=\"\/onlyyork\/2011\/09\/08\/some-of-my-favorite-yorkisms\/\">Yorkisms<\/a> remain popular, though!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#cccccc;padding:5px\">\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">My job at the YDR was to be the full-time Weekly Record editor, putting out four editions each week with a staff of two full-time copy editors.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">My job at the YDR is part-time (allowing me to homeschooling Sarah) as the online editor with a staff of one part-time librarian; this blog and the two accompanying print columns, &#8220;Do you remember?&#8221; and &#8220;Ask Joan&#8221; are part of that.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"padding:5px\">\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">I had 3 cats: Scoop, <a href=\"\/onlyyork\/2007\/06\/10\/a-good-day-for-picnics-and-cat\/\">Huggles<\/a> (who arrived in my first week of blogging here) and Salem.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">I have 5 cats: Still Huggles and Salem, and also <a href=\"\/onlyyork\/2009\/03\/20\/clearance-cats\/\">Mr. Bill<\/a>, <a href=\"\/onlyyork\/2009\/05\/09\/cats-cats-cats-and-more-cats\/\">Mitts<\/a> and <a href=\"\/onlyyork\/2011\/06\/27\/ask-joan-meet-floyd-and-lots-o\/\">Floyd<\/a>. Scoop has gone to Kitty Heaven.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#cccccc;padding:5px\">\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"padding:5px\">The York Fair&#8217;s musical acts were Willie Nelson, Trace Adkins, Bill Engvall, Daughtry and Randy Owen (from Alabama). 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