{"id":12260,"date":"2012-02-17T08:28:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2012-02-17T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:29:37","slug":"last-man-standing-going-postal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-going-postal\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Going Postal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VFHA15B8iNI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I just heard a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=147002854\" target=\"_blank\">brief report on the news<\/a> that the <strong>US Postal Service<\/strong> is considering raising its regular letter rate to 50 cents and discontinuing Saturday deliveries, among other cost-cutting moves, to stem an estimated annual loss of about $18 <em>billion<\/em> per year by 2015. In honor of the rapidly diminishing old-time practice of sending and receiving physical letters through the mail, I declare a <strong><em>Last Man Standing<\/em> on songs centered around the practice of sending and receiving letters, including the practice of mail delivery<\/strong>. A mere reference to a letter is not enough; the postal service and its deliverables must be central to the song.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll kick it off with one of my favorite childhood rockers, <strong>&#8220;The Letter&#8221;<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard a brief report on the news that the US Postal Service is considering raising its regular letter rate to 50 cents and discontinuing Saturday deliveries, among other cost-cutting moves, to stem an estimated annual loss of about $18 billion per year by 2015. In honor of the rapidly diminishing old-time practice of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-going-postal\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}