{"id":4449,"date":"2011-06-18T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2011-06-18T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T18:08:35","slug":"coolest-thing-youll-see-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4449","title":{"rendered":"Coolest thing you&#8217;ll see today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>if you&#8217;re an old fart like me<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Post office prints <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.usps.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&#038;storeId=10052&#038;catalogId=10001&#038;productId=10006762&#038;WT.ac=S_466040\">Bill Mauldin<\/a> stamps. <\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid, I used to play with my uncles old army gear. He had uniforms and packs piled in boxes in his garage, and his kids and i would dress up and run around the yard yelling at the neighbors, who happened to be korean, but were Japanese looking enough for us, and always got to be the &#8220;Nips&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evenings, though, we&#8217;d sit in the shed and paw through the copies of &#8216;Stars and Stripes&#8221; and read the cartoons, mostly. None of the rest of the shit meant anything to us. So by the time I was ten, I knew who Bill Mauldin was, and when he died in 03, a little bit of me died with him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, philately gets me nowhere- but when I get a piece of mail that had a Bill Mauldin stamp on it, I had to see if they still did, and they do! So yes, you can bet your ass I&#8217;ll be buying some, and sending out mail with them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if you&#8217;re an old fart like me The Post office prints Bill Mauldin stamps. When I was a kid, I used to play with my uncles old army gear. He had uniforms and packs piled in boxes in his garage, and his kids and i would dress up and run around the yard yelling at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}