{"id":1173,"date":"2012-05-13T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smrsimple.com\/?p=1173"},"modified":"2012-05-13T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T03:15:34","slug":"smrsimple-a-five-year-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/2012\/05\/smrsimple-a-five-year-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"smrsimple: a five year plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my inspirations for smrsimple was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategyplanet.com\/tropico\/\"><em>Cafe Tropico<\/em><\/a>. Tropico cafe was a fansite for PopTop&#8217;s Tropcio. They had forums, map downloads, and a strong community.This is exactly what smrsimple has become, and I am proud of that.<\/p>\n<p>In 1 month smrsimple will turn 3 years old. In 7 months Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads itself will turn 6 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The amazing part of this is that smrsimple is going just as strong as ever. We get between 250 and 350 visitors a day and most visitors are return visitors. People want to play sid meier&#8217;s railroads maps and smrsimple is providing that. I say this because there is a temptation to see the none-changing smrsimple frontpage and think that the site is dying.<\/p>\n<p>From creation smrsimple was to become a library of maps with a focus on distributing those maps. It is my belief that smrsimple can be the most utility to map makers and sid meiers railroads players by making map downloading barrier free.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For 3 years smrsimple has provided sid meier&#8217;s railroads maps, and we will continue through the next 5 years and beyond.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my inspirations for smrsimple was Cafe Tropico. Tropico cafe was a fansite for PopTop&#8217;s Tropcio. They had forums, map downloads, and a strong community.This is exactly what smrsimple has become, and I am proud of that. In 1 month smrsimple will turn 3 years old. In 7 months Sid Meier&#8217;s Railroads itself will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46ySx-iV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1173"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1173\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smrsimple.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}