{"id":7048,"date":"2010-06-07T07:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T11:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2010-06-03T08:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T12:41:02","slug":"insanely-wonderful-gift-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=7048","title":{"rendered":"Insanely Wonderful Gift Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marvelous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindonfire.com\/\">xJane<\/a> recently discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/\">Fiverr<\/a>, a site where people advertise things they&#8217;ll do for $5.  She was surfing around and found bsza&#8217;s offer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/users\/bsza\/gigs\/send-a-postcard-from-transylvania-to-a-destination-of-your-choice\">send a postcard from Transylvania<\/a> to the destination of your choice.  And she wrote me with the following suggestion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If their handwriting is suitably calligraphic (or perhaps you could send them a gif to copy onto the postcard), this might be a fun Random Thing On The Fridge Or Coffee Table:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nDear xJane,<\/p>\n<p>Was so glad you could visit this winter. You know how much the long nights here make me lonesome. What a great idea to trade meals for lodging whilst traveling through Europe! I hope the rest of your trip was as memorable. Please come back soon&#8211;I so rarely get visitors since that hubub with the Ottomans.<\/p>\n<p>Yours always,<\/p>\n<p>Vlad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then I passed out from the sheer brilliance of this idea.<\/p>\n<p>So, for a mere $5 (or your local equivalent; there doesn&#8217;t appear to be any geographical restrictions), you or a friend can have an extremely cool Transylvanian postcard.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, xJane!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marvelous xJane recently discovered Fiverr, a site where people advertise things they&#8217;ll do for $5. She was surfing around and found bsza&#8217;s offer to send a postcard from Transylvania to the destination of your choice. And she wrote me with the following suggestion: If their handwriting is suitably calligraphic (or perhaps you could send [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","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=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}