{"id":163,"date":"2015-11-03T00:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2015-11-03T00:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:29:22","slug":"postcard-project-an-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/03\/postcard-project-an-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcard project, an overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-164 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o\" width=\"260\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o-1024x765.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o-285x214.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been writing about this postcard project and realized there really isn&#8217;t a post that summarizes it.<\/p>\n<p>This idea was inspired by CLMOOC, Sarah Honeychurch\u200b&#8217;s gifting project, <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisguillebeau.com\/postcards-in-the-mail\/\">this postcard thing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/leftysmudges.com\/\">this one<\/a>, and my love of writing letters. From all this, a group of us decided to a project to send each other handmade postcards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1W754kcvTKsa0Cnx6wzGtaJ0O13Gs3MbOEyZb-cUU9v4\/viewform\">You can sign up to be a part of it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are no &#8220;rules.&#8221; You can send as many or as few as you like to whoever you like whenever you like. The topics are up to you.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/dogtrax.edublogs.org\/2015\/10\/18\/post-clmooc-cards-its-not-the-technology-its-us\/\">lovely post<\/a> that Kevin wrote about this project, and here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/01\/postcards-the-happy-series\/\">a couple<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/30\/postcards-the-adult-series\/\">first sets<\/a> of postcards I&#8217;ve sent out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m intrigued by the idea of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/documentary-illuminates-the-power-of-gift-culture\">gift economy <\/a>and generally the idea of doing nice things because they&#8217;re nice for you and nice for others. I&#8217;m wondering if there&#8217;s some bigger collaborative project that might spin out of this.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the tiny grain size of this seems just right, and we&#8217;re getting new folks joining all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been writing about this postcard project and realized there really isn&#8217;t a post that summarizes it. This idea was inspired by CLMOOC, Sarah Honeychurch\u200b&#8217;s gifting project, this postcard thing, this one, and my love of writing letters. From all this, a group of us decided to a project to send each other handmade postcards. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/03\/postcard-project-an-overview\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Postcard project, an overview<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/22540099440_9d9c8d9cc9_o.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6LkCQ-2D","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fasimpaur.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}