{"id":891,"date":"2010-08-18T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2014-09-26T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T00:23:51","slug":"extra-speaking-of-letters-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/extra-speaking-of-letters-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Speaking of Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Days-161-Extra-Typewriter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-892\" title=\"Days 161 Extra - Typewriter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Days-161-Extra-Typewriter-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As a writer, I spend most of the day, most days, at my computer. Over the years, several of the more common letters have rubbed off (like the E, R, and T). I only realized this when other people tried to use my computer and weren\u2019t sure where these letters were. I started to feel like Vanna White with hidden letters and was tempted to say, \u201cWould you like to buy a vowel?\u201d I guess technically I didn\u2019t <em>give<\/em> the letters away, but indeed I no longer had them except in the muscle memory of my fingers. I know that in the scope of societal needs this is a frivolous post but sometimes we just have to let go and laugh at ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of letters, though, I am aware of the power of the handwritten word. A friend of mine has cancer, does not do e-mail, and wearies of talking on the phone about her illness. Another friend suggested a snail mail letter. What a concept! It takes a little longer and costs 44 cents \u2013 at least this year \u2013 but sometimes letters are important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a writer, I spend most of the day, most days, at my computer. Over the years, several of the more common letters have rubbed off (like the E, R, and T). I only realized this when other people tried to use my computer and weren\u2019t sure where these letters were. I started to feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","tag-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1703,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}