{"id":2600,"date":"2017-03-04T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2017-03-04T08:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:07:34","slug":"instant-happiness-from-clementina-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Instant Happiness &#8211; From Clementina Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can a Technologist be a Romantic?<\/p>\n<pre>Why write a personal letter when you can email it?\r\n\r\nWhy print a photo when you can F***Book it?<\/pre>\n<p>The waiting represents the work, effort and thought that went into delivering something to someone you care about. So I\u2019ll keep using the postal services and photo printing booths for now.<\/p>\n<p>Those who receive my letters often see the act as quite quirky especially considering my accidental profession but it feels wonderful and tells me lots about the recipient.<\/p>\n<pre>Will they write back?\r\n\r\nWill they even acknowledge the letter?\r\n\r\n\u2026or will they simply ignore it and move on?<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2599\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2599 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/letterbox-1926493_1920-1024x590.jpg\" width=\"525\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/letterbox-1926493_1920-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/letterbox-1926493_1920-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/letterbox-1926493_1920-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/letterbox-1926493_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Love Letters from Clementina Road, Leyton, London E10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a Technologist be a Romantic? Why write a personal letter when you can email it? Why print a photo when you can F***Book it? The waiting represents the work, effort and thought that went into delivering something to someone you care about. So I\u2019ll keep using the postal services and photo printing booths for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=2600\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instant Happiness &#8211; From Clementina Road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2608,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}