{"id":17508,"date":"2014-10-19T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:00:28","slug":"tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/19\/tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradition!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is Tina’s and my tradition to exchange cards we’ve made ourselves for holidays, birthdays and anniversaries rather than add to the pile of clutter exchanging gifts to be forgotten. My wife is not really the Kay Jeweler<\/em> type, and I wouldn’t know what to do with golf clubs. So, as is our tradition, this is my card to Tina for our 18th wedding anniversary.\"18-ANN-out\"<\/a>\"18-ANN-IN\"<\/a>Well, maybe Kay Jewelers<\/em> wasn’t such a bad idea…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is Tina’s and my tradition to exchange cards we’ve made ourselves for holidays, birthdays and anniversaries rather than add to the pile of clutter exchanging gifts to be forgotten. My wife is not really the Kay Jeweler type, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[3324,166,27,3664,43,5,3323,6,480],"class_list":["post-17508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","tag-18th-anniversary","tag-anniversary","tag-digital-illustration","tag-drawer-cards","tag-humor","tag-joe-williams","tag-porcelain","tag-tina-garceau","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4yo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41681,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/10\/07\/cosmic-maaaaaannnnn-sticks-around-for-another-birthday\/","url_meta":{"origin":17508,"position":0},"title":"Cosmic Maaaaaannnnn Sticks Around for Another Birthday","author":"Joe","date":"October 7, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"As I have written before, it's Tina's and my tradition to exchange birthday, anniversary and holiday cards we have illustrated ourselves. 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