{"id":517,"date":"2013-03-25T06:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2013-03-24T14:31:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T19:31:23","slug":"the-lost-art-of-the-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/the-lost-art-of-the-postcard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Art of the Postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this age of instant messaging, e-mail, twitter and other ways to communicate at the speed of light it may come as a shock to some of the younger Triple B readers that there was once a time when correspondence was not handled as quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Before the days of Facebook, it was not possible to post a status while on vacation to all of your friends to let them know that you were &#8220;Having a great time exploring the world&#8217;s largest ball of twine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, when you were at that ball of twine, and you wanted to let your friends know how much fun it was, you had to buy a postcard and actually place it in something called a mailbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this age of instant messaging, e-mail, twitter and other ways to communicate at the speed of light it may come as a shock to some of the younger Triple B readers that there was once a time when correspondence was not handled as quickly. Before the days of Facebook, it was not possible to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/25\/the-lost-art-of-the-postcard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lost Art of the Postcard<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[52,53,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballparksbeachesandbeyond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}