{"id":519,"date":"2018-05-31T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/?p=519"},"modified":"2018-05-31T11:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T11:09:05","slug":"send-me-a-postcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Send me a postcard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent poll (who does these things??!!) 23% of young people (10-25) didn&#8217;t recognise a picture postcard, one of a number of items they were asked to identify. Now while it&#8217;s no surprise to learn that teenagers don&#8217;t<em> use<\/em> postcards (they have quicker ways of communicating), I was shocked to find such a large number didn&#8217;t even know what one was! The trouble is, postcards do not plop onto the doormats of houses as regularly as they once did, and holidaymakers don&#8217;t write and send them as a matter of course, so youngsters are not used to <em>seeing<\/em> postcards in their homes. Postcards still have an iconic aura, though, and are still bought (but not necessarily mailed) in their millions. So let&#8217;s ask the question &#8211; how often do postcard<em> collectors<\/em> and<em> dealers<\/em> send cards through the post? Shouldn&#8217;t we all be doing something to promote the genre? We are, after all, trying to encourage more people to <em>collect<\/em> postcards. Let&#8217;s give it a go &#8211; send a postcard whenever you can!..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent poll (who does these things??!!) 23% of young people (10-25) didn&#8217;t recognise a picture postcard, one of a number of items they were asked to identify. Now while it&#8217;s no surprise to learn that teenagers don&#8217;t use postcards (they have quicker ways of communicating), I was shocked to find such a <a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/?p=519\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postcardcollecting.co.uk\/books\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}