{"id":3677,"date":"2002-10-09T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T11:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2002-10-09T06:56:37","modified_gmt":"2002-10-09T11:56:37","slug":"im_batstamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/09\/im_batstamp.html","title":{"rendered":"I’m Batstamp!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Very cool bat stamps<\/a> coming out from the USPS.<\/p>\n

I’ve always found bats to be interesting creatures. I’ve never had a bad encounter with them, usually just a squeak-squeak in the air, or the sight of something flying along with all the grace of a spastic piece of paper. <\/p>\n

But bats are cool. Hit your post office and buy a few for your kids, sib-kids, or whatever. And if you do Halloween cards … well, what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n

(via Prentiss<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Very cool bat stamps coming out from the USPS. I’ve always found bats to be interesting creatures. I’ve never had a bad encounter with them, usually just a squeak-squeak in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8761,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/i_would_certain.html","url_meta":{"origin":3677,"position":0},"title":"I would certainly put a number of these on my envelopes","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Apr-06 8:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Worth1000 showcases people's ideas for new USPS postage stamps. 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