{"id":5129,"date":"2009-12-10T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2009-12-10T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T13:42:03","slug":"card-a-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=5129","title":{"rendered":"Card a Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondermark suggested this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wondermark.com\/card-a-stranger\/\">previously<\/a>, and I quite like the idea of making some stranger&#8217;s life a little more surreal.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is simple: If you&#8217;ve got a holiday card or two left over after you send out your greetings for the season, choose a stranger&#8217;s name out of the phone book and send one to them.  Include your family newsletter or other &#8220;personal but slightly banal&#8221; note, along with a warm greeting.  They might be puzzled, they might assume you&#8217;ve made a mistake, they might be touched.  There&#8217;s no way to be sure, but you&#8217;ll certainly provoke <em>some<\/em> kind of reaction.<\/p>\n<p>Since my holiday cards tend to involve vampires or Edward Gorey, I plan to have more fun than average in my quest to bring a little weirdness into some else&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wondermark.com\/card-a-stranger\/\">Wondermark<\/a> for more suggestions, including how not to be messily axe-murdered.  That&#8217;s always important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondermark suggested this previously, and I quite like the idea of making some stranger&#8217;s life a little more surreal. The idea is simple: If you&#8217;ve got a holiday card or two left over after you send out your greetings for the season, choose a stranger&#8217;s name out of the phone book and send one to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5515,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}