{"id":2747,"date":"2014-07-29T22:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2014-07-29T22:48:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T14:48:55","slug":"postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-dsc_3008.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC_3008.JPG\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/wpid-dsc_3008.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I travel, I make it a point to send postcards to my immediate family and closest friends. There is something very nostalgic and romantic about sending postcards &#8211; it captures a moment in time when I&#8217;m happiest while out exploring the world and harks back to a time when snail, rather than electronic, mail was the norm. <\/p>\n<p>I enjoy the act of picking out postcards and deciding who is to receive which. I generally try to pick out postcards that are more unique like Moomin postcards to represent Finland rather than one with a photo of a tourist attraction. And if I can do some good in the process even better &#8211; in Cambodia, I bought postcards from a charity shop that helped the deaf.<\/p>\n<p>I also love seeing the stamps of the different countries and get a cheap thrill out of slotting the postcard into the mailbox, imagining its flight across the seas and the joy of the intended readers upon receipt of the postcard. <\/p>\n<p>While in Finland I couldn&#8217;t help but get those Moomin postcards and stamps shown in the picture above. This is me playing my part in keeping the art of snail mail and postcard writing alive!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I travel, I make it a point to send postcards to my immediate family and closest friends. There is something very nostalgic and romantic about sending postcards &#8211; it captures a moment in time when I&#8217;m happiest while out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=2747\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[230,231,187],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-postcard","tag-travel-2","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}