{"id":611,"date":"2009-06-01T16:48:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T23:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2009\/06\/01\/13-years-of-cicada-mania\/"},"modified":"2012-11-03T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T19:44:30","slug":"13-years-of-cicada-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/13-years-of-cicada-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Years of Cicada Mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada Mania is 13 years old. <\/p>\n<p>In 1996, I started the site to document some Brood II Magicicada photos I took in my back yard and at a friend&#8217;s wedding, and the site took off from there. <\/p>\n<p>The site has had 7 different URLs over the years. <\/p>\n<p>In 2004, during the Brood X emergence, the site received 50,000 visitors in a single day and I was interviewed on CNN (Ted Nugent haircut in a ponytail):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_dDayFlhnI?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2007 and 2008 were great as well. In 2007 I got to meet fellow cicada enthusiasts Roy Troutman, Gene Kritsky, Gerry Bunker and Joe Green, and I was interviewed for a Japanese TV show:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fcCFT7lEWlw?hl=en&#038;fs=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And in 2008 I drove out to Ohio and stayed with Roy Troutman, met Gene Kritsky again, and met John Cooley for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the original logo:<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/13-years-of-cicada-mania\/cicada-mania-logo\/' rel='attachment wp-att-612' title='Cicada Mania logo'><img src='\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/originalcicadamania.gif' alt='Cicada Mania logo' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a fun 13 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cicada Mania is 13 years old. In 1996, I started the site to document some Brood II Magicicada photos I took in my back yard and at a friend&#8217;s wedding, and the site took off from there. The site has had 7 different URLs over the years. In 2004, during the Brood X emergence, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cicada-mania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}