{"id":1151,"date":"2009-12-21T08:33:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2015-12-27T13:52:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T18:52:40","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there has been a lot of news about how traditional Christmas cards are going by the wayside due to the convenience and affordability of sending them to your address book <a title=\"Decline of Traditional Christmas card, Washington Post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/18\/AR2009121801995.html\" target=\"_blank\">via email<\/a> or even Facebook.. We tried to send Christmas cards once, when our kids were wee tots and it just added to the holiday stress, so I&#8217;m not a big advocate of sending Christmas cards in general. Of course, we love receiving them and I respond to everyone but just cannot take it on myself. Because I appreciate them, I was interested in this <a title=\"Holidays on Display, NMAA\" href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/exhibitions\/exhibition.cfm?key=38&amp;exkey=1404\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Holidays on Display<\/em><\/a> exhibit at the National Museum of American History. It documents the history of holiday pageantry from cards to parade floats from the 1920&#8217;s &#8211; 1960&#8217;s. A second exhibit, Season&#8217;s Greetings, about <a title=\"Holiday Exhibits, by Michael O'Sullivan, WP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/17\/AR2009121701389.html\" target=\"_blank\">the sentiment of handmade holiday cards<\/a> is at the Reynolds Center, a dedicated art gallery documenting America&#8217;s artistic heritage at the Archives of American Art, a part of the National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Art Museums). Boy, this Santa looks merry!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/ph2009121701393.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1152\" title=\"Julia Thecia\\'s Christmas Card from Archives of American Art\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/ph2009121701393.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Thecia\\'s Christmas Card from Archives of American Art\" width=\"309\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ph2009121701393.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/ph2009121701393-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 309px) 100vw, 309px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coincidentally and adding a bit of credibility to the lack of snail-mail holiday cards, you can email any of these eCards below from the <a title=\"Archives of American Art website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaa.si.edu\/exhibits\/seasonsgreetings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Archives of American Art&#8217;s<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1153\" title=\"Edward Dickerson Holiday Card. Archives of American Art\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/5.jpg\" alt=\"Edward Dickerson Holiday Card. Archives of American Art\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1154\" title=\"Peter Hunt Holiday Card from Archives of American Art exhibit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/4.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Hunt Holiday Card from Archives of American Art exhibit\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1155\" title=\"Demi &amp; Arturo Rodriguez\\' Holiday Card at Archives of American Art exhibit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/6.jpg\" alt=\"Demi &amp; Arturo Rodriguez\\' Holiday Card at Archives of American Art exhibit\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ve got a couple more places now to go with the kids and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, there has been a lot of news about how traditional Christmas cards are going by the wayside due to the convenience and affordability of sending them to your address book via email or even Facebook.. 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Coincidentally and adding a bit of credibility to the lack of snail-mail holiday cards, you can email any of these eCards below from the Archives of American Art&#8217;s website. OK, I&#8217;ve got a couple more places now to go with the kids and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[92,63,143,463,1],"tags":[942,937,938,941,724,940,939,943],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations-and-all-including-sad-events","category-everyday","category-exhibitions","category-technology","category-uncategorized","tag-archives-of-american-art","tag-christmas-card","tag-digital-holiday-card","tag-ecards","tag-facebook","tag-holidays-on-display","tag-national-museum-of-american-art","tag-seasons-greetings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Cards<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A bounty of different types of Christmas Cards on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas Cards\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A bounty of different types of Christmas Cards on Art Is Everywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2009\/12\/christmas-cards\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"ArtIsEverywhere\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-12-21T13:33:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-12-27T18:52:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/12\/ph2009121701393.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@casartcoverings\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"casart\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/christmas-cards\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/christmas-cards\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"casart\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"headline\":\"Christmas Cards\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-12-21T13:33:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-12-27T18:52:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/christmas-cards\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/7386efc0ded244523b35adaf1e387f00\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/christmas-cards\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ashley-spencer.com\\\/ArtIsEverywhere\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/\\\/2009\\\/12\\\/ph2009121701393.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Archives of American Art\",\"Christmas card\",\"digital holiday card\",\"eCards\",\"Facebook\",\"Holidays on Display\",\"National Museum of American Art\",\"Season's Greetings\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Celebrations &amp; 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