{"id":3461,"date":"2015-12-14T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2015-12-14T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T07:49:04","slug":"happy-birthday-to-tikit-and-an-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2015\/12\/14\/happy-birthday-to-tikit-and-an-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to TiKiT and an Anniversary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bg16age1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bg16age1.jpg\" alt=\"bg16age[1]\" width=\"118\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bg16age1.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/bg16age1-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/a>I &#8216;googled&#8217; to see what happened on the 16th December 1999 and I can find no mention of\u00a0one momentous occasion in the last century namely the birthday of\u00a0this website\u00a0so Happy Birthday to\u00a0tikit.net which will be 16 years old on the 16th this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spanking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3469 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spanking-77x300.jpg\" alt=\"Spanking\" width=\"77\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spanking-77x300.jpg 77w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Spanking.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 77px) 100vw, 77px\" \/><\/a>Talking of birthdays reminded me of a puzzle that has literally been around for years and that is &#8216;When should PAN be celebrating its anniversaries?&#8217; In 1957 the PAN Record magazine claimed\u00a0that year\u00a0was the 10th anniversary so they had decided to count from the year PAN title numbered one was published and not from 1944 when PAN Books was established or from 1945 when PAN actually published its first book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is made more confusing by PAN publishing in conjunction with CQ magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/Wilton\/Hiaasen.htm\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Native Tongue&#8217;<\/span> <\/a>by Carl Hiassen with PAN 50 Years on the spine. Inside it states it was published in 1992 but it could be old text with a new cover but on the last page it shows 8\/95 which ties in with my assertion but not PAN&#8217;s who celebrated 50 years in 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PANRecord.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3468 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PANRecord-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"PANRecord\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PANRecord-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PANRecord-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/PANRecord.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After mentioning Wikipedia deleting David Tayler&#8217;s page last week I&#8217;m pleased to report I have since found this site <a href=\"http:\/\/deletionpedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Dave_Tayler_(book_cover_artist)&amp;redirect=no\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Deletionpedia<\/span><\/a> which I hope means he&#8217;ll live on in cyberspace. He is on my list of artists\u00a0whose work deserve their own page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Finally here\u00a0is another newspaper clipping that mentions an author receiving the &#8216;Golden PAN Award&#8217;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ken-Kesey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3473 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Ken-Kesey.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Kesey\" width=\"249\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I &#8216;googled&#8217; to see what happened on the 16th December 1999 and I can find no mention of\u00a0one momentous occasion in the last century namely the birthday of\u00a0this website\u00a0so Happy Birthday to\u00a0tikit.net which will be 16 years old on the 16th this week. Talking of birthdays reminded me of a puzzle that has literally been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}