{"id":1413,"date":"2010-01-01T11:24:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T02:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-01-01\/1413"},"modified":"2010-01-01T11:24:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T02:24:22","slug":"our-2010-new-years-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-01-01\/1413","title":{"rendered":"Our 2010 New Year&#8217;s Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class='resize_warning' id='arw1413'>\n<b>NOTE<\/b>: Images with an <img class='raw' width='19' height='18' src='\/i\/s\/red_zoomup.gif'\/> icon next to them have been artificially shrunk to better fit your screen; click the icon to restore them, in place, to their regular size.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2010-Japanese.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2010-Japanese_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\"\nalt=\"Our 2010 New Year's Card -- Kyoto, Japan -- https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"iNengajou_2010_Japanese\"\ntitle=\"Our 2010 New Year's Card -- Kyoto, Japan -- https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Our 2010 New Year's Card<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Japanese culture has people sending <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%E5%B9%B4%E8%B3%80%E7%8A%B6\">New Year's\ncards<\/a> en masse just before the end of the year, with Japan Post\nholding them until the morning of January First, at which point they then deliver\nthem in accumulated bundles to households across Japan.<\/p>\n\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px'>The card above is what we sent this year, with pictures from:<\/p>\n<ul style='margin:0'>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-04-09\/1182\">Anthony Starts First Grade<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-10-12\/1328\">Anthony's Shichi-Go-San Hakama Portrait<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-11-09\/1351\">Visit to Tokyo Disneyland: the Second Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-10-05\/1323\">Anthony's First Grade-School Sports Festival<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-04-14\/1187\">Growing Up Quickly: Off To First Grade On His Own<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-02-10\/1140\">Anthony's First Ski Experience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-02-14\/1147\">Anthony's First Solo Outing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2009-09-02\/1306\">Quicky Passport-Photo Photo Session<\/a><\/li> <!-- dbl okay -->\n<\/ul>\n<p style='margin-top:5px'>and our <a href=\"\/blog\/2009-08-15\/1291\">trip to Ohio<\/a> in the summer.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fumie came up with the design, and <span class='nobr'>I implemented<\/span> it in Photoshop. <span class='nobr'>It's an easy<\/span> design... the hard part is picking the photos to include from the\n18,775 that <span class='nobr'>I have<\/span> from 2009. (It was certainly <span class='nobr'>a lot<\/span> less work than <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2005-12-09\/110\">this Photoshop work<\/a> <span class='nobr'>I did<\/span>\nfor <span class='nobr'>a friend<\/span> four years ago, and remain proud of even though <span class='nobr'>I think<\/span> <span class='nobr'>I\ncould<\/span> do much better today.)<\/p>\n\n<p>Because it falls so close to Christmas, we use the same design for our\nChristmas Card, just replacing the Japanese with English...<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"2010\" href=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2010-English.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2010-English_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\"\nalt=\"Our Christmas 2009 Card -- Kyoto, Japan -- https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"iNengajou_2010_English\"\ntitle=\"Our Christmas 2009 Card -- Kyoto, Japan -- https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Our Christmas 2009 Card<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p id='card2008'>We didn't send New Year's cards <span class='nobr'>a year<\/span> ago because you don't send or\nreceive them in <span class='nobr'>a year<\/span> you've suffered <span class='nobr'>a death<\/span> in the family (Fumie's\nmaternal grandmother <a href=\"\/blog\/2008-04-27\/803\">passed\naway<\/a> in April of last year), so last year we had only <span class='nobr'>a Christmas<\/span>\nCard:<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><a name=\"2009\" href=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2009.jpg\"\n><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/Nengajou-2009_sm.jpg\" width=\"690\" height=\"435\"\nalt=\"Our Christmas 2008 Card -- Kyoto, Japan -- https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\nid=\"iNengajou_2009\"\ntitle=\"Our Christmas 2008 Card -- Kyoto, Japan -- https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/><span class='caption'>Our Christmas 2008 Card<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>From the archives: our New Year's cards for:\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2008-01-03\/676\">2008<\/a>,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2007-01-01\/320\">2007<\/a>,\nand\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2006-01-01\/123\">2006<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese culture has people sending New Year's cards en masse just before the end of the year, with Japan Post holding them until the morning of January First, at which point they then deliver them in accumulated bundles to households across Japan.<\/p> <p style='margin-bottom:5px'>The card above is what we sent this year, with pictures from:<\/p> Anthony Starts First Grade Anthony's Shichi-Go-San Hakama Portrait Visit to Tokyo Disneyland: the Second Day Anthony's First Grade-School Sports Festival Growing Up Quickly: Off To First Grade On His Own Anthony's First Ski Experience Anthony's First Solo Outing Quicky Passport-Photo Photo Session <p style='margin-top:5px'>and our [...]","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\/1413"}],"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=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}