{"id":4897,"date":"2011-07-11T05:26:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2011-12-24T17:38:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:38:58","slug":"i-love-postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/i-love-postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Postcard Revival by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/2616533974\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5672\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3068\/2616533974_bb0bd59d3a.jpg\" alt=\"Postcard Revival\" width=\"560\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No, dammit, the postcard is not dead. I still send them, I still love recieving them. And while, yes, you can&#8217;t beat those ruffled edged Kodakchrome color landscapes you can still buy from postcard racks and at garage sales, access to the wonders of digital means that you can create your own postcards with your own images and, hey, they do not suck! Witness the phone call from my dad, so amused by that picture of me with the penguins, or hey wait? Is that my picture of Austria under your fridge magnet? No, it isn&#8217;t, not YET. But it could be&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postcardly.com\/auth\/index\" target=\"_blank\">Postcardly<\/a> has given me a credit for 15 postcards.\u00a0 I will happily send one your way if you&#8217;re in the first 15 to send me your address &#8212; US only, sorry. Five of those postcards will inlcude a promo code. If you get one,\u00a0 you&#8217;ll get a code that gives you a free 15 postcards to send, too. Nice, eh?<\/p>\n<p><strong>A disclaimer:<\/strong> This is my test run for the service. I can&#8217;t tell you right now if I think it&#8217;s great or not, I just don&#8217;t know. I do love love love me some postcards though and anything that makes it easy for me to send them, well, in theory, I love that, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want a postcard and maybe the promo code?<\/strong> I need your mailing address. Get it to me via email, or the Facebook, or the Twitter, or whatever. <strong>Do not leave your address in the comments.<\/strong> Though if you&#8217;re inspired to leave a comment about the ways in which postcards are awesome, please do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, dammit, the postcard is not dead. I still send them, I still love recieving them. And while, yes, you can&#8217;t beat those ruffled edged Kodakchrome color landscapes you can still buy from postcard racks and at garage sales, access to the wonders of digital means that you can create your own postcards with your &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"I Love Postcards\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/11\/i-love-postcards\/#more-4897\" aria-label=\"Read more about I Love Postcards\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-op-ed","category-elsewhere","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4900,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/4900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}