{"id":192,"date":"2010-02-01T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2010-02-01T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:39:00","slug":"do-you-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Do You …."},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have people who read your blog but then comment via snail mail (the USPS kind)<\/i>? I do.<\/p>\n

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It never fails to crack me up when I get a snail mail commenting on the blog. Why spend $$$ to mail off a comment when you could simply type one in online? Or email me directly through the published email address? I understand the local readers who either call me on the phone or stop me on the street to comment on the blog – they feel it is more personal and polite to comment directly. I can understand the additional sense of connection that comes from the face-to-face or mouth-to-ear interactions. But to mail off an epistle about a blog post seems to me to be a bit odd.<\/p>\n

So far most of the snail mails have come from people I know because we went to school together close to 40 years ago. It isn’t like they aren’t computer literate; they are. It isn’t like they don’t occasionally send an email; they do. So why the snail mail epistles? I’m hoping one of them will choose to answer, be it via snail mail or email or blog comment or ….<\/p>\n

It is pretty funny in a way. I read other bloggers complaining that their friends don’t read their blog, their family doesn’t read their blog, etc. I have a different problem, a number of people who read my blog but don’t comment in the standard ways. I’ve decided to treat it as an honor to me that they have found a channel to convey their comments to me – what more could an itinerant scribbler hope for?<\/p>\n

What’s your comment oddity of the moment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have people who read your blog but then comment via snail mail (the USPS kind)? I do. It never fails to crack me up when I get a snail mail commenting on the blog. Why spend $$$ to mail off a comment when you could simply type one in online? Or email me … Continue reading Do You ….<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}