{"id":137491,"date":"2018-12-25T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T20:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/christmas-cards.html"},"modified":"2019-01-01T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T00:54:15","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/christmas-cards.html","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Cards are both a personal bane (taking up the chunk of time they do) and a personal joy (a chance to reach out to people &#8212; friends and family &#8212; who aren&#39;t social media correspondents and the like). I&#39;m glad that another generation is finding them retro enough to be cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-holiday-greeting-cards-1223-story.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/TxaPnroe2S9aiPYifxyTruaZuqoCeCYBWvUQT8e8tDLseQxIM1ksMiWD_2kOFP9KfeS_b6x2hBQhtEOm4vwMuvwvEhiHlO-iYdTZm9mtYug4DV8V7fAqBFrL9uYiqw=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-holiday-greeting-cards-1223-story.html'>Why are paper Christmas cards still a thing? Millennials, for once, are to thank.<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOld-fashioned paper greeting cards, delivered via snail mail, have remained a holiday tradition, even as social media and smartphones give us more ways to keep in touch than ever.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZM9t9nuJEya'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Cards are both a personal bane (taking up the chunk of time they do) and a personal joy (a chance to reach out to people &#8212; friends and family &#8212; who aren&#39;t social media correspondents and the like). I&#39;m glad that another generation is finding them retro enough to be cool. Why are paper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/25\/christmas-cards.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas Cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-holidays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129250,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/24\/achievement-unlocked-christmas-cards-finished.html","url_meta":{"origin":137491,"position":0},"title":"Achievement Unlocked: Christmas Cards Finished","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Dec-15 10:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Got them done last night. Some will be late in arriving, but all will go out before the 25th.Given the debacle of Amazon's delivery of this year's cards, I ended up using bits and bobs of leftover cards from years past, as well as scavenging some from my mom (thanks,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/christmas-stamp-20145B15D.pngimgmax%3D660.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":129295,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/27\/the-earliest-christmas-cards.html","url_meta":{"origin":137491,"position":1},"title":"The Earliest Christmas Cards","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Dec-15 7:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, it's post-Christmas, but this was a fun article about how the earliest Christmas cards, in the Victorian Era, were not bastions of religious piety about \"the reason for the season,\" but visual jokes, sentimental expressions about holiday celebrations, and interesting (and\/or morbid) religious metaphors. 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Cards are always kind of a difficult chore for us, partly because...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Personal&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Personal","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40198,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/well-christmas-cards-never-we.html","url_meta":{"origin":137491,"position":4},"title":"Well, Christmas cards never we&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Dec-13 4:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, Christmas cards never went out, but gifts are all wrapped, which was a higher priority. Merry Christmas Eve!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49053,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/21\/achievement-unlocked-christmas-cards-sent-redeeming-moral-victory-of-the-year-achieved.html","url_meta":{"origin":137491,"position":5},"title":"Achievement unlocked! Christmas cards sent! Redeeming moral victory of the year achieved!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 21-Dec-14 10:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Achievement unlocked! Christmas cards sent! Redeeming moral victory of the year achieved! 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