{"id":123,"date":"2006-01-01T22:37:06","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T13:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-01-01\/123"},"modified":"2006-01-01T22:37:06","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T13:37:06","slug":"our-christmas-and-new-year-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-01-01\/123","title":{"rendered":"Our Christmas and New-Year Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>\n\nNow that the Japanese New-Year cards have been delivered (they're delivered\nen masse on New Year's morning), <span class='nobr'>I can show<\/span> the cards we sent this year:\n<\/p>\n\n\n<table align='center' cellspacing=\"10\" width=\"720\"><tr valign=\"top\" align=\"center\">\n<td width=\"345\">\nOur Christmas 2005 Card<br\/>\n\n<a href=\"\/i\/Christmas-2005m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Christmas-2005s.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"491\"\nalt=\"The Jeff-And-Fumie-Friedl 2005 Christmas Card\"\nborder=\"1\"\nid=\"iChristmas_2005s\"\ntitle=\"The Jeff-And-Fumie-Friedl 2005 Christmas Card\"\/><\/a>\n\n<br\/><small>For friends\/family outside of Japan<\/small>\n<\/td>\n\n<td width=\"345\">Our New Year 2006 Card<br\/><a\n\nhref=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2005m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2005s.jpg\" width=\"345\" height=\"452\"\nalt=\"The Jeff-And-Fumie 2006 New Year's Card;\"\nborder=\"1\"\nid=\"iNengajou_2005s\"\ntitle=\"The Jeff-And-Fumie 2006 New Year's Card;\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><small>For friends\/family within Japan<\/small>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n<p>\n\nThey were actually both exactly the same size, but our address info took\ndiffering amounts near the bottom, and they got lopped off for this post.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nThe New Year card has a dog in the upper corner (2006 is the year of the\ndog), and the spinning top under &#8220;Happy&#8221; is <span class='nobr'>a traditional<\/span>\nnew-year's image (for reasons <span class='nobr'>I must<\/span> still ask about). The wreath-like\nthing on the Christmas card is also <span class='nobr'>a traditional<\/span> new-year's image in\nJapan, but it also worked well on <span class='nobr'>a western<\/span>-style Christmas card, so <span class='nobr'>I went<\/span>\nahead and used it.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nIn a previous post I described <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> about <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2005-12-16\/111\">how these got made<\/a>, and in\nyet <span class='nobr'>a different<\/span> post, <span class='nobr'>I gave a<\/span> <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2005-12-09\/110\">short intro to Japanese New\nYear cards<\/a>.\n\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray\" align=\"center\" bgcolor=\"#445\">\n<tr valign=\"top\"><td>\n<a href=\"\/i\/chihiro-nengajo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/chihiro-nengajo.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"265\"\nborder=\"1\"\nid=\"ichihiro_nengajo\"\/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n\n<td width=\"300\">\n<p>\n\nAmong the cards we received today was this one, from <span class='nobr'>a friend.<\/span>\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nIf you read the <a href=\"\/blog\/2005-12-09\/110\">short intro\nto Japanese New Year cards<\/a> mentioned above, you'll recognize the photo.\n\n<\/p>\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Now that the Japanese New-Year cards have been delivered (they're delivered en masse on New Year's morning), I can show the cards we sent this year: <\/p> Our Christmas 2005 Card For friends\/family outside of Japan Our New Year 2006 Card For friends\/family within Japan <p> They were actually both exactly the same size, but our address info took differing amounts near the bottom, and they got lopped off for this post. <\/p><p> The New Year card has a dog in the upper corner (2006 is the year of the dog), and the spinning top under \"Happy\" is a [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}