{"id":1936,"date":"2007-04-07T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creativeawakeningsinternational.com\/2007\/04\/in_the_mail\/"},"modified":"2007-04-07T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T17:23:00","slug":"in_the_mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/in_the_mail\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sherigaynor.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/04\/24\/covernofonts_2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, &#039;_blank&#039;, &#039;width=288,height=434,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#039;); return false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Covernofonts_2\" title=\"Covernofonts_2\" src=\"http:\/\/sherigaynor.typepad.com\/livingourdreams\/images\/2007\/04\/24\/covernofonts_2.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What a story! I put the proposal in the mail today. I was going to do a friend a favor and babysit for her this morning, so I had my envelope all ready to go for a Saturday morning, 7:30 AM mailing. <\/p>\n<p>I drove to the post office, said a little prayer, put it in the mail box and&#8230;it promptly GOT STUCK! I am not kidding you! Fully wedged in the drawer! i could not get my hand in far enough to get it out, and I could not shake the drawer hard enough to get it to fall completely through to the cart below!<\/p>\n<p>I could hear the postal people in the back, so I knocked on the door&#8230;no answer. I rang the bell&#8230;no answer. I was beginning to panic and was imagining all sorts of things like, &quot;It&#8217;s a terrible sign, etc.&quot; I decided to tell my dancing gremlins to settle down and drove around the back and through the gate where I found the crew outside smoking. They had a good early morning laugh as I shared my dilemma and promised to go back inside and set the proposal free. <\/p>\n<p>As I drove to Aspen to keep my promise to my girlfriend, I had a multitude of thanks for living in a small mountain town, where everybody really does know your name and is willing to laugh with you and help out in a &quot;pinch.&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a story! I put the proposal in the mail today. I was going to do a friend a favor and babysit for her this morning, so I had my envelope all ready to go for a Saturday morning, 7:30 AM mailing. I drove to the post office, said a little prayer, put it in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherigaynor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}