{"id":36,"date":"2009-11-03T23:52:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=36"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:37:00","slug":"catalog-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Catalog Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">November 2 seemed to be this year&#8217;s opening day for the annual catalog mailing deluge &#8212; 15 different catalogs arrived at the FD post office box. \u00a0Several were duplicates of what FD received at home, and few if any will get any business from FD. \u00a0This year, especially, when so much is on sale in local shops, catalog shopping doesn&#8217;t seem to be the way to go. \u00a0And yet, there&#8217;s no doubt the catalogs will keep coming. \u00a0FD recycles them and sometimes even makes an envelope or two from interesting pages. \u00a0And, we don&#8217;t really mind getting the catalogs, since they help to support the post office and FD <strong>LOVES<\/strong> the US Postal Service! \u00a0There are many complaints about the postal service, but FD has not experienced major problems, and is still captivated by the idea of a single stamp taking postcards and letters anywhere in the country. \u00a0And FD uses the US Postal Service <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/tools\/calculatepostage\/welcome.htm?from=home&amp;page=0061calculatepostagehttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">on-line postage calculator<\/a> often.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not that we&#8217;ve been that thrilled with stamp choices lately. \u00a0But we did buy several sheets of the Kelp Forest stamps, and Mr. FD likes the new secular holiday stamps (yes, we&#8217;re part of the &#8220;holiday,&#8221; not &#8220;Christmas&#8221; group).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 2 seemed to be this year&#8217;s opening day for the annual catalog mailing deluge &#8212; 15 different catalogs arrived at the FD post office box. \u00a0Several were duplicates of what FD received at home, and few if any will get any business from FD. \u00a0This year, especially, when so much is on sale in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}