{"id":787,"date":"2008-12-24T17:41:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T22:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-12-24T20:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T01:41:03","slug":"merry-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago we began a Christmas Postcard tradition.\u00a0 The first one was the result of an after-dinner conversation.\u00a0 We invested a good five minutes in it, but it still turned out OK.\u00a0 In 2006 we went all out.\u00a0 I had the idea of putting the pictures on the tree months before Christmas.\u00a0 It was a good thing because it seemed like it took months to put the card together.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we streamlined things a bit and went with a simple design which included a picture of our favorite ornament.\u00a0 And this year is completely minimalist with only three pictures.\u00a0 We did add the personal touch of signing the card.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some postcard trivia:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; Brutus the Buckeye started appearing on each card in 2006.\u00a0 Can you find him in the 2008 picture?<br \/>\n2 &#8211; Someone in the family has taken each picture except the Brutus on the 2006 card.<br \/>\n3 &#8211; Photoshop has never been used to create our postcard.\u00a0 Instead I use a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xara.com\" target=\"_blank\">Xara<\/a> (my favorite graphic editor).\u00a0 We send a JPEG of the final version to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapfish.com\" target=\"_blank\">Snapfish<\/a> for printing.<br \/>\n4 &#8211; We all signed the 2008 card using a tablet computer, but Kayla was away at college.\u00a0 She sent me an Adobe Illustrator file with her signature and I imported it into Xara.<br \/>\n5 &#8211; To make our card grammatically correct, we dropped the apostrophe in 2008.\u00a0 We are plural and not possessive.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing all the cards on one page, we have decided to make the 2009 card red.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Christmas 2005\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3120\/3133438817_7d13571484.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Christmas 2006\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3203\/3134260380_901ceb2979.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Christmas 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3251\/3134260330_94246169e6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Christmas 2008\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3229\/3133438705_ac0334a3fa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago we began a Christmas Postcard tradition.\u00a0 The first one was the result of an after-dinner conversation.\u00a0 We invested a good five minutes in it, but it still turned out OK.\u00a0 In 2006 we went all out.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2008\/12\/24\/merry-christmas-2\/\">Continue reading <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":[1],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-christmas-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}