{"id":44,"date":"2006-06-09T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T05:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/06\/09\/yearly-kos\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T00:30:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T05:30:41","slug":"yearly-kos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/06\/09\/yearly-kos\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearly Kos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of finishing and hitting publish on the last dozen in the Draft folder, I&#8217;m at <a href=\"www.yearlykos.org\">YearlyKos<\/a>.  The reporting on it will hit saturation point shortly, if it hasn&#8217;t already.  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