{"id":1194,"date":"2008-12-29T10:32:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2008-12-29T10:33:43","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:33:43","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1193\" title=\"xmascard2008\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/xmascard2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/xmascard2008.jpg 500w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/xmascard2008-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/xmascard2008-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the illustration I worked up for this year&#8217;s card I&#8217;m starting to send to everyone.\u00a0 It reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>We missed our chance to say Merry Christmas &amp; Even a Happy New Year, But it&#8217;s probably never ever too late to Spread a Little Cheer!<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No it&#8217;s not as clever as the <a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=1072\">Holiday cards from Roy Doty<\/a> I pointed out a few weeks back, but I had fun doing the illustration anyway.\u00a0 I think my wife thought I was going crazy because I kept giggling to myself both at the cheesiness of this illustration and the pathetic look on my character&#8217;s face. (The new Illustrator tools make artwork SO easy now by the way)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been super clever with my Holiday cards. (maybe because I wait till the last minute?).\u00a0 Here are a couple of my last few year&#8217;s attempts<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbs\"><a title=\"2006's Christmas Card. I had just picked up a new camera so I thought I'd go down somewhere nice to get some Holiday images to use\" rel=\"lightbox[xmas]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/lowestudio_christmascard200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1195\" title=\"ls_carda\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ls_carda.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><a title=\"2008 New Year's Card. Last year I had it printed digitally as opposed to having it manually printed at home. It was ok but I kinda think the home printing affair kept it more intimate with my friends and clients\" rel=\"lightbox[xmas]\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/newyear2008-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1196\" title=\"ls_cardb\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/ls_cardb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the illustration I worked up for this year&#8217;s card I&#8217;m starting to send to everyone.\u00a0 It reads: We missed our chance to say Merry Christmas &amp; Even a Happy New Year, But it&#8217;s probably never ever too late to Spread a Little Cheer! No it&#8217;s not as clever as the Holiday cards from Roy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-business","tag-christmas-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"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=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}