{"id":864,"date":"2010-02-03T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=864"},"modified":"2023-03-04T08:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T13:14:34","slug":"threes-a-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/02\/03\/threes-a-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Three’s a Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a card I did back in the late-’80s\/early ’90s that crams together three holidays. Seems I had slacked off somewhat and was in need of catching up on my holiday correspondence!<\/p>\n

This one was done in technical pens probably on bristol board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a card I did back in the late-’80s\/early ’90s that crams together three holidays. Seems I had slacked off somewhat and was in need of catching up on my holiday correspondence! This one was done in technical pens probably … 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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,18,7],"tags":[8,86,3664,88,5,24,38],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-drawer-cards","category-illustration","tag-cartoons","tag-christmas","tag-drawer-cards","tag-easter","tag-joe-williams","tag-technical-pen","tag-valentines-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-dW","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":864,"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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