{"id":4072,"date":"2010-08-27T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T10:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2010-08-26T21:13:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T01:13:50","slug":"coolest-piece-of-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/27\/coolest-piece-of-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Coolest Piece of Mail I&#8217;ve Ever Received at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday at work I received a promotional brochure through the mail.\u00a0 It&#8217;s without a doubt the single coolest piece of mail I&#8217;ve ever received at my office.\u00a0 What was the brochure promoting you ask?\u00a0 I have no idea.\u00a0 It was the postage stamp used to mail the piece that made it so cool.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Calvin &amp; Hobbes postage stamp\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_hobbes_stamp.jpg\" alt=\"Calvin &amp; Hobbes postage stamp\" width=\"600\" height=\"748\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Awesome.\u00a0 Just awesome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is part of the U.S. Postal Service&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Funnies&#8221; commemorative stamps released in July.\u00a0 Other stamps in the collection include: Archie, Dennis the Menace, Beetle Bailey, and Garfield.\u00a0 You can order your own by <a title=\"U.S. Postal Service Sunday Funnies Commemorative Stamps\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.usps.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&amp;storeId=10052&amp;productId=10006962&amp;langId=-1&amp;parent_category_rn=10000003&amp;top_category=10000003&amp;categoryId=10000031&amp;top=&amp;currentPage=0&amp;sort=&amp;viewAll=N&amp;rn=CategoriesDisplay&amp;WT.ac=10006962\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div 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Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell. If you've been reading ONCE UPON A GEEK for a while, then you probably know I'm a big\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_hobbes_looking.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2094,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/10\/15\/dear-mr-watterson-a-thank-you-to-the-creator-of-calvin-and-hobbes\/","url_meta":{"origin":4072,"position":1},"title":"Dear Mr. Watterson&#8230; A Thank You to the Creator of Calvin and Hobbes","date":"October 15, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Mr. Watterson is a film project spearheaded by Joel Allen Schroeder.\u00a0 According to their website,\u00a0 \"Dear Mr. Watterson is a film that will look to the readers and fans of Calvin & Hobbes to tell the story of the strip and its creator. As we follow the life and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/dearmrwatterson_calvin_hobbes.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3475,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/25\/one-of-the-more-depressing-cartoons-ive-seen-in-a-while\/","url_meta":{"origin":4072,"position":2},"title":"One of the more depressing cartoons I&#8217;ve seen in a while&#8230;","date":"May 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Calvin saying goodbye to Hobbes at Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.\u00a0 Click the image to enlarge. 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You may recall I've posted before about the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvinsnow01.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":224,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/calvin-and-hobbes-manga-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":4072,"position":5},"title":"Calvin and Hobbes Manga-Style","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some interesting manga-style interpretations of Calvin and Hobbes.\u00a0 The recent Charlie Brown Manga-Style post seemed to spark a lot of discussion, so I thought I'd do another on one of my all-time favorites.\u00a0 If you have any sense of humor or love for childhood, then Calvin and Hobbes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Calvin and Hobbes by ~loveariddle","src":"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/calvin_hobbes2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4075,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4072\/revisions\/4075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}