{"id":984,"date":"2026-07-01T03:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2026-07-01T03:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T03:15:22","slug":"instrumentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/instrumentality\/","title":{"rendered":"Instrumentality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSTRUMENTALITY_LANDR_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSTRUMENTALITY_LANDR_small.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSTRUMENTALITY_LANDR_small-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSTRUMENTALITY_LANDR_small-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSTRUMENTALITY_LANDR_small-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/INSTRUMENTALITY_LANDR_small-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Instrumentality.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another metal tune, this version has an extra bit on the end I don&#8217;t remember.\u00a0 Hmm. Well, you get to hear it here.\u00a0 I&#8217;m preparing for an exam, and I need to bolt.\u00a0 No time to go look for the other version.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got to say though, that I continue to be blown away by the traffic this site has been getting lately.\u00a0 This isn&#8217;t a big comic by any means, but it sure got bigger.\u00a0 Toocheke seems to be treating the non-SSL traffic as if it&#8217;s real, which means we&#8217;ll be over 5,000 uniques this month.\u00a0 But even if those are ghosts, and only the SSL traffic is real, it will still be over 2000 uniques.\u00a0 \u00a0AWstats is only detecting 23 bots, so the bulk of the traffic either isn&#8217;t bots; or the bots are passing as real people most of the time.\u00a0 I may be feeling more positive than I should.\u00a0 After all, easy come, easy go.\u00a0 I&#8217;m probably boring everyone with the traffic comments, but how does the SSL traffic increase by seven times in two months?\u00a0 Especially in the summer months, when webcomic traffic is supposed to plummet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another metal tune, this version has an extra bit on the end I don&#8217;t remember.\u00a0 Hmm. Well, you get to hear it here.\u00a0 I&#8217;m preparing for an exam, and I need to bolt.\u00a0 No time to go look for the<br \/><a class=\"btn-more btn btn-danger btn-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/instrumentality\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-way-of-the-waifu-b-sides-and-spiritual-beings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wayofthewaifu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}