{"id":1721,"date":"2022-12-21T05:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T05:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T05:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T05:50:13","slug":"minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/21\/minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimalist and Maximalist Modes of Holiday Impersonality"},"content":{"rendered":"
'Tis the season for the letter carriers of the world to groan under their useless burdens of impersonal greetings.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Impersonality in the minimalist style typically takes the form of a store-bought card with a pre-fabricated message to which is appended an embossed name. A step up from this is a handwritten name. Slightly better is the nowadays common family picture with handwritten name but no message.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The maximalist style is far worse. Now we are in for a lengthy litany of the manifold accomplishments of the sender and his family which litany may run to a page or two of single-spaced text.<\/span><\/div>\n
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One size fits all. No attempt to address any one person as a person.<\/span><\/div>\n
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"It's humbug, I tell you, humbug!"<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

'Tis the season for the letter carriers of the world to groan under their useless burdens of impersonal greetings.   Impersonality in the minimalist style typically takes the form of a store-bought card with a pre-fabricated message to which is appended an embossed name. A step up from this is a handwritten name. Slightly better … Continue reading “Minimalist and Maximalist Modes of Holiday Impersonality”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[407,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners-and-mores","category-personalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}