{"id":4396,"date":"2014-12-04T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=4396"},"modified":"2014-12-19T00:29:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T04:29:02","slug":"your-basic-man-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/4396","title":{"rendered":"your basic Man Card . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.\u201d
\n\u2014 G. K. Chesterton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have you ever made a gift so peculiar that you wondered if your friend on the receiving end would make all the special connections? For me, the personal miniature is inexplicable enough in its own right. The individual collage greeting made by a male artist for his friend not only defies general explanation, but may not be entirely comprehensible, even for its intended recipient (which, in my experience, seems to work out just fine for everyone involved).

\n 
\n\"collage<\/a><\/p>\n

Large Bore Boar<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage greeting card by J A Dixon<\/p>\n

\"collage<\/a><\/p>\n

Reduced to This<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage greeting card by J A Dixon<\/p>\n

\"collage<\/a><\/p>\n

Small Bore Boer<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage greeting card by J A Dixon<\/p>\n

\"collage<\/a><\/p>\n

Pump Heat, Pack Iron<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage greeting card by J A Dixon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.\u201d \u2014 G. K. Chesterton Have you ever made a gift so peculiar that you wondered if your friend on the receiving end would make all the special connections? For me, the personal miniature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4396"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4396\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}