{"id":21150,"date":"2016-10-07T05:28:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21150"},"modified":"2016-10-07T05:28:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T09:28:01","slug":"til-the-real-thing-comes-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/10\/07\/til-the-real-thing-comes-along\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8217;til the Real Thing Comes Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"If that ain't love...\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/30042113552\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8652\/30042113552_daa1f5ecbe_c.jpg?resize=588%2C800&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"If that ain't love...\" width=\"588\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThis year&#8217;s birthday card for the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/the-tina-garceau-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Tina<\/em><\/a> features the fabulous feline <em>Plywood<\/em> in a photo collage cobbled together in the astounding <em><a href=\"https:\/\/affinity.serif.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Affinity Photo<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy birthday, Tina!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s birthday card for the lovely Tina features the fabulous feline Plywood in a photo collage cobbled together in the astounding Affinity Photo. Happy birthday, Tina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[18,4,14],"tags":[1088,390,41,27,3664,43,3661,5,34,3975,480],"class_list":["post-21150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drawer-cards","category-news","category-photo-manipulation","tag-birthday-card","tag-cat","tag-collage","tag-digital-illustration","tag-drawer-cards","tag-humor","tag-illustration","tag-joe-williams","tag-rat","tag-tuxedo","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5v8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24464,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/10\/07\/happy-birthday-tina-2018-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":21150,"position":0},"title":"Happy Birthday, Tina! 2018 Edition","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"October 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Being that Tina's birthday comes in October, I usually get a jump on Halloween by giving her card the theme of the season. 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This year, I was a little stuck for an idea so I perused my iPhoto library looking for an idea: I picked a few unlikely photos and voila:","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Drawer Cards&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Drawer Cards","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/drawer-cards\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/10-7-10-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":46563,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/11\/30\/happy-birthday-joe-13\/","url_meta":{"origin":21150,"position":2},"title":"Happy Birthday Joe!","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"November 30, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This year's card is my annual portrait of Joe along with two of the things he loves - Tortie and cake. 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