{"id":289,"date":"2012-12-09T01:03:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2017-07-03T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T16:14:04","slug":"22-august-2005-3-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"2005.8.22 &#8211; 3 years and counting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today is my third anniversary here at the &#8216;wash and in honour of this momentous occasion i decided to do a retrospective of sorts of my personal favourites. this doesn&#8217;t mean that i am going to try to boost my own ego, but rather the egos of my favourite past and present backwashers. although this is my space to pontificate on matters that i feel worthy, i would like to turn it around today and give credit to my fellow writers. so &#8211; without a moment longer to wait, here are my top 10 favourite posts on the &#8216;wash!<\/p>\n<p>10 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060228202815\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=7651\" target=\"_blank\">Hippie Helen And Her Merry Band Of Twisting Scriptures<\/a>\u00a0by Opinionated Dyke With An Axe To Grind<\/p>\n<p>9 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20060414075221\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=6075\" target=\"_blank\">I don&#8217;t have a problem. I could stop any time I wanted to<\/a>\u00a0by Book Slut, Media Junkie<\/p>\n<p>8 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050224024529\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=7672\" target=\"_blank\">A Note To My Biographer<\/a>\u00a0by All Grown Up And Nowhere To Go<\/p>\n<p>7 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050301052958\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=8421\" target=\"_blank\">Suffragettes, Hatchets &amp; Rhinestones<\/a>\u00a0by Eclectic GlamKitty Living Despite The Odds<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050104013043\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=4281\" target=\"_blank\">The Reflective Jodi<\/a>\u00a0by Hawaiian Punch In Cocktail Glasses<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050101041937\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=6953\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s Your Doctor When In Need<\/a>\u00a0by Scratch, Pop &amp; Hiss<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041231090345\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?id=223\" target=\"_blank\">Decades<\/a>\u00a0by Bored<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050224024853\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=9051\" target=\"_blank\">The Spoonman Diet<\/a>\u00a0by There Is No Spoon<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050818203111\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=5407\" target=\"_blank\">Skating On Shit<\/a>\u00a0by Outside Of Society<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051128043353\/http:\/\/www.backwash.com\/content.php?jouid=4061\" target=\"_blank\">Long Live The Muppets<\/a>\u00a0by Grrl Gets The Goods<\/p>\n<p>so what do you think? good choices? there are many others that i love as well, but i was in a bit of a hurry to get this list up today, on my actual anniversary, so these will have to do for now.<\/p>\n<p>keep on reading all these and the other backwashers and come back often. i promise (not crossing my fingers behind my back) that i will return shortly with more insight and hippie hurrah!<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<br \/>\nHippiegrrl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today is my third anniversary here at the &#8216;wash and in honour of this momentous occasion i decided to do a retrospective of sorts of my personal favourites. this doesn&#8217;t mean that i am going to try to boost my own ego, but rather the egos of my favourite past and present backwashers. although this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/?p=289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2005.8.22 &#8211; 3 years and counting&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[176],"tags":[212,178,213],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heia","tag-anniversary","tag-backwash","tag-flashback"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2XCO6-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":307,"url":"https:\/\/hippiegrrlexplainsitall.com\/?p=307","url_meta":{"origin":289,"position":0},"title":"2007.9.8 &#8211; how i got here and where i&#8217;m going","author":"chantale","date":"9 December 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"2007 has been grim, at best. 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