{"id":312,"date":"2005-11-09T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2005\/11\/09\/greeting_cards_\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T17:01:00","slug":"greeting_cards_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/2005\/11\/09\/greeting_cards_\/","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Greeting Cards for People Who Are Estranged<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I stopped in a drugstore the other day to look at greeting cards, I saw some new categories of cards I hadn&#8217;t seen before. There was a category of cards that was titled something like: <em>Cards for Troubled Relationships.<\/em> And then there was a category similarly titled but a separate category called something like <em>When Times are Difficult.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The cards in these categories were geared towards <lj-cut><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>those who were having problems in romantic relationships. They sounded like the kinds of cards that people would send each other when a breakup is imminent. Or when one person had been an insensitive jerk and was able to admit it. Or when someone had been under a lot of stress and hadn&#8217;t been able to be much fun for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see cards for other relationships that could be included in these categories. Like for estranged parents and grown kids or siblings or friends. I thought if they were going to have a category of cards for <em>Difficult Relationships<\/em> that there needed to be cards that were suitable for these other kinds of relationships too. <\/p>\n<p>It might look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/snickers.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/envelopegreeting.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/snickers.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/envelopegreeting.jpg\" title=\"Envelopegreeting\" alt=\"Envelopegreeting\" class=\"image-full\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWorks for me! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Snicks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I stopped in a drugstore the other day to look at greeting cards, I saw some new categories of cards I hadn&#8217;t seen before. There was a category of cards that was titled something like: Cards for Troubled Relationships. And then there was a category similarly titled but a separate category called something like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-holidays","category-weblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrangements.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}