{"id":3442,"date":"2019-12-21T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-21T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T16:24:03","slug":"minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimalist and Maximalist Modes of Holiday Impersonality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&#39;Tis the season for the letter carriers of the world to groan under their useless burdens of impersonal greetings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Impersonality in the minimalist style may take 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 still is the nowadays common family picture with handwritten name but no message.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">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><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">One size fits all. No attempt to address any one person as a person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&quot;It&#39;s humbug, I tell you, humbug!&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Tis the season for the letter carriers of the world to groan under their useless burdens of impersonal greetings. Impersonality in the minimalist style may take 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 still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/21\/minimalist-and-maximalist-modes-of-holiday-impersonality-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minimalist and Maximalist Modes of Holiday Impersonality&#8221;<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manners-and-mores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","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=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}