{"id":52,"date":"2009-11-09T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T00:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2009-12-24T04:37:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T21:37:28","slug":"letter-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Letter Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FD makes envelopes (a form of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mail_art\" target=\"_blank\">mail art&#8221;<\/a>) and uses them for handwritten &#8212; usually not even word processed &#8212; letters to a small circle of friends. \u00a0FD hears that &#8220;everyone&#8221; just texts and tweets these days, and that even using email is a sign of decrepit old age. \u00a0But why <strong>not<\/strong> write letters? When you write a letter you become part of an ancient history that has survived the invention of the telegraph and the telephone, and perhaps will survive the internet, too. \u00a0Writing letters is a highly pleasurable activity, with huge opportunities for creativity. \u00a0FD likes to coordinate letter paper, topic, and envelope, and sometimes is even able to add an appropriate postage stamp. \u00a0Of course, the real creativity comes in the actual writing; a good letter is like an essay for a single reader. \u00a0Some blog entries (though not FD&#8217;s) are like letters from and to unknown friends, and the occasional holiday letter can reach near-&#8220;real letter&#8221; interest, but nothing really compares to an actual letter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A great source of information on letters and letter writing can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendy.com\/letterwriting\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. \u00a0FD, \u00a0on and off at various times over the last 20 years, joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letter-exchange.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LEX<\/a>, the Letter Exchange. \u00a0LEX issues a magazine three times a year, with listings by those looking for letter writing opportunities. \u00a0It&#8217;s a sweet community of people who are interested in real correspondence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FD makes envelopes (a form of &#8220;mail art&#8221;) and uses them for handwritten &#8212; usually not even word processed &#8212; letters to a small circle of friends. \u00a0FD hears that &#8220;everyone&#8221; just texts and tweets these days, and that even using email is a sign of decrepit old age. \u00a0But why not write letters? When [&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\/52"}],"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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foliodeux.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}