{"id":1072,"date":"2008-12-12T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2008-12-12T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:31:15","slug":"roy-doty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/roy-doty\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Doty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should be better about doing my Holiday Greeting cards each year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small little fun gesture I like to do for my clients &amp; friends and I think when I take the time to hand-write something, it makes a difference &amp; shows some personal commitment. I did it for the 1st year of business but it&#8217;s been increasingly delayed each year of business.\u00a0 Last year I just ended up doing a New Year&#8217;s Day card instead.<\/p>\n<p>This year I haven&#8217;t even started.\u00a0 Now it&#8217;s near the middle of December. I doubt I could whip up something in time.\u00a0 Should I do a New Years one again?\u00a0 Or should I wait until Chinese New Years instead?\u00a0 I know a fellow graphic designer in town named Eric Woo Design that does a nice Chinese New Years card each year&#8230; I don&#8217;t want to bite his idea.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230;what to do what to do?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an illustrator I stumbled across today, named Roy Doty, that&#8217;s done amazing personal Xmas cards since 1946.\u00a0 He says he starts thinking of ideas for this starting in September.\u00a0 Damnit, that makes sense why do I always procrastinate?! (via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cagle.com\/hogan\/features\/christmas_cards_2008\/main.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Cagle.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbs\">\n<a rel=\"lightbox[doty]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/doty_85.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1073\" title=\"1985\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/1985.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[doty]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/doty_68.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1074\" title=\"1968\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/1968.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"lightbox[doty]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/doty_maze.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1075\" title=\"maze\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/maze.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should be better about doing my Holiday Greeting cards each year.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a small little fun gesture I like to do for my clients &amp; friends and I think when I take the time to hand-write something, it makes a difference &amp; shows some personal commitment. I did it for the 1st year of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","tag-christmas-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}