{"id":225,"date":"2004-08-22T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-22T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/22\/the-mailbox-police-finally-caught-up-to-us\/"},"modified":"2004-08-22T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-22T23:33:00","slug":"the-mailbox-police-finally-caught-up-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/22\/the-mailbox-police-finally-caught-up-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mailbox Police Finally Caught Up to Us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/mailbox.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/weblog\/mmailbox.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"Click for bigger...\" \/><\/a>This is the amazing mailbox that The Lady Janet constructed for us to hold all the big stacks of mail and catalogs we get almost every day. It&#8217;s been our mailbox for over 8 years now, and it&#8217;s perfect &#8211; it almost always holds it all, it matches our house perfectly, it&#8217;s very sturdy, it&#8217;s well-made, and it&#8217;s cuter than a bug&#8217;s ear, even if the bug&#8217;s crawling on a kitten who looks perplexed.<\/p>\n<p>But now our new mailman has decided that despite years of flawlessly enjoyable mail delivery and receipt, it comes up short on several counts of USPS standards for what constitutes a mailbox, and we&#8217;ve received a form asking us to correct the problems. Brother.<\/p>\n<p>If we don&#8217;t ignore it, or they pursue it, we need to provide a door and a flag and make it waterproof. Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the amazing mailbox that The Lady Janet constructed for us to hold all the big stacks of mail and catalogs we get almost every day. It&#8217;s been our mailbox for over 8 years now, and it&#8217;s perfect &#8211; it almost always holds it all, it matches our house perfectly, it&#8217;s very sturdy, it&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/08\/22\/the-mailbox-police-finally-caught-up-to-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mailbox Police Finally Caught Up to Us!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}