{"id":5779,"date":"2012-12-13T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2012-12-13T10:49:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T15:49:39","slug":"postage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/postage\/","title":{"rendered":"Postage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iktpostage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5781\" title=\"iktpostage\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iktpostage.jpg\" alt=\"iktpostage\" width=\"450\" height=\"646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iktpostage.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/iktpostage-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year at\u00a0this\u00a0time, right at the end of\u00a0November and beginning\u00a0of December, I&#8217;m busy getting my annual Christmas card ready for the mail. \u00a0And, no, I don&#8217;t run out to the corner drug store to buy my cards. \u00a0Being a cartoonist, I have the fun advantage of being able to draw and design my own Christmas card. \u00a0It&#8217;s something I enjoy doing. \u00a0(And I use a desktop\u00a0publishing\u00a0program called <a title=\"Scribus\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribus.net\" target=\"_blank\">Scribus<\/a> running on a Linux desktop system).<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I&#8217;ve noticed that the cost of postage has been creeping ever higher. This little fact inspired \u00a0today&#8217;s &#8220;I Knew That!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re figuring out the answer, I need to double check my mailing list. \u00a0I\u00a0may\u00a0have missed a few\u00a0friends.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Answer: (Click, hold down, and move your mouse to the right of the arrow to reveal the answer)===============&gt; <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">A single postage stamp in 2000 cost 33 cents. The price was raised to 34 cents in 2001.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year at\u00a0this\u00a0time, right at the end of\u00a0November and beginning\u00a0of December, I&#8217;m busy getting my annual Christmas card ready for the mail. \u00a0And, no, I don&#8217;t run out to the corner drug store to buy my cards. \u00a0Being a cartoonist, I have the fun advantage of being able to draw and design my own Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,105],"tags":[520,1274,855],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-i-knew-that","tag-christmas-card","tag-i-knew-that","tag-postage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5790,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions\/5790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}