{"id":351,"date":"2008-01-09T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2008-01-09T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T22:31:00","slug":"please-mr-postmaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/please-mr-postmaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Please, Mr. Postmaster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a envelope from the Postmaster today. On the outside it said, &#8220;Dear Valued Postal Customer: I want to extend my sincere apology as your Postmaster for the enclosed document that was inadvertently damaged in handling by your Postal Service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was the enclosed document:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R4VPeqi7vXI\/AAAAAAAABrg\/PeA8aJsEC7w\/s1600-h\/postoffice2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R4VPeqi7vXI\/AAAAAAAABrg\/PeA8aJsEC7w\/s320\/postoffice2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153612736830881138\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Yes, that is the entire document that I received from the Postmaster &#8212; a scrap of envelope that just so happened to have my return address on the back.<\/p>\n<p>This is from one of the thank-you cards I sent to people who gave me gifts at my <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/happy-new-year-bitches.html\">New Year&#8217;s\/Birthday party<\/a>.  I hope the rest of the card arrived at its destination even though it had a big bite taken out of it, but what if it didn&#8217;t? Someone might be going unthanked.  That worries me.  So, unknown but very thoughtful gift-giver, I hope you will accept this as my hand-written note of appreciation.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R4VS4ai7vYI\/AAAAAAAABro\/UvNwi-l91m4\/s1600-h\/thank+you.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R4VS4ai7vYI\/AAAAAAAABro\/UvNwi-l91m4\/s320\/thank+you.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5153616477747395970\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This also applies to whoever gave me the box of Teuscher chocolates that got separated from its card. (Don&#8217;t be shy; identify yourself!) <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a envelope from the Postmaster today. On the outside it said, &#8220;Dear Valued Postal Customer: I want to extend my sincere apology as your Postmaster for the enclosed document that was inadvertently damaged in handling by your Postal Service.&#8221; This was the enclosed document: Yes, that is the entire document that I received&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/please-mr-postmaster\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,101,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-birthdays","7":"category-holidays","8":"category-insanity","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}