{"id":817,"date":"2009-03-17T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2009-03-17T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:31:00","slug":"alex-and-the-calling-cards-in-which-a-customer-finds-satisfaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Alex and the Calling Cards: In Which A Customer Finds Satisfaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At many points over the last year I have found myself in several situations in which having a calling card would make things easier.  And not just because I&#8217;m a Victorian at heart.  The magazine, the play, overtures from an art board, newfound family etc. etc. &#8212; carrying around a slice of study paper with my contact info on it would have come in handy.<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.moo.com\/images\/products\/medium\/minicards.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 165px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moo.com\/images\/products\/medium\/minicards.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moo.com\/\">moo.com<\/a> re-caught my attention.  Here&#8217;s a site that makes nice full-bleed cards for a reasonable price.  There are a few places out there which say they make cards for free, but they look spurious at best.  And Moo is in Britain.  I mean, come on.<\/p>\n<p>So I get to the process of making a design for myself.  It should come as no surprise that I end up with a space invader.  A few minutes in <a href=\"http:\/\/gimp.org\/\">gimp<\/a> and I&#8217;ve got the pattern set.<\/p>\n<p>But what about color?  Fortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colourlovers.com\/\">colourlovers.com<\/a> provides lots and lots of excellent palettes.  And, based on the spelling, again with the Britishness.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it &#8212; tiny little calling cards, perfect for most occasions.  Don&#8217;t be shy now &#8212; give it a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At many points over the last year I have found myself in several situations in which having a calling card would make things easier. And not just because I&#8217;m a Victorian at heart. The magazine, the play, overtures from an art board, newfound family etc. etc. &#8212; carrying around a slice of study paper with [&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-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}