{"id":32887,"date":"2020-11-16T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32887"},"modified":"2020-11-16T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T21:53:01","slug":"cards-in-the-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=32887","title":{"rendered":"Cards in the Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

In today’s mail, I received a package of Christmas cards from the National Cathedral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Cards<\/p>\n

They’re asking for money. I get packages like this every year from charities like the Alzheimer’s Association and Colonial Williamsburg. This is the first year I’ve been on the National Cathedral’s list. It’s a little strange, yet also cool, that this atheist has become a “friend of the cathedral.”<\/p>\n

I did, of course, visit the Cathedral a few days before I landed in the hospital<\/a> when I lost my vision, and I’d hoped to visit again this year (alas, COVID!) to add more bricks to the LEGO National Cathedral<\/a>. Maybe next year. Or the year after.<\/p>\n

In any event, these are lovely cards, and I’m deeply touched to receive them. Will I use<\/i> them? I have no idea. I realize it is mid-November, but this year has been such a year that I haven’t even given Christmas a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In today’s mail, I received a package of Christmas cards from the National Cathedral. They’re asking for money. I get packages like this every year from charities like the Alzheimer’s Association and Colonial Williamsburg. This is the first year I’ve been on the National Cathedral’s list. It’s a little strange, yet also cool, that thisContinue reading “Cards in the Mail”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[64,4949,4103,4811],"class_list":["post-32887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-christmas","tag-colonial-williamsburg","tag-lego","tag-national-cathedral","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}