{"id":16424,"date":"2018-03-11T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=16424"},"modified":"2018-03-11T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:22:39","slug":"hopefully-all-goes-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2018\/03\/11\/hopefully-all-goes-well.html","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully All Goes Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tHere is what I think happened here. Someone dropped a letter containing his &#8220;proposal&#8221; into a USPS blue mailbox on 30th Avenue in Astoria. After doing so he realized he put the wrong address on the envelope. Instead of, I don&#8217;t know, <em>writing the proposal again and sending it to the proper address<\/em> he instead implored &#8220;MR. MAILMAN&#8221; to &#8220;PLEASE CHANGE ADDRESS ON ONE ENVELOPE&#8221;. A superhero USPS worker might rise to the occasion, but did they? One way to find out would be to write a letter to the correct address seen in this hand-written plea, asking if anyone there received a letter from John C., whose last name I cannot quite make out. The obvious question is about\u00a0 the nature of the proposal. Marriage? Business? Something transcendental? No way to know from this.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16427\" style=\"width: 745px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16427\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2018\/03\/2018-03-11-16.20.09_001-1024x576.jpg?resize=735%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"It's My Proposal\" width=\"735\" height=\"413\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s My Proposal<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"ymail_android_signature\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is what I think happened here. Someone dropped a letter containing his &#8220;proposal&#8221; into a USPS blue mailbox on 30th Avenue in Astoria. After doing so he realized he put the wrong address on the envelope. Instead of, I don&#8217;t know, writing the proposal again and sending it to the proper address he instead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-image","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-11-16.20.09_001-1024x576-5.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-4gU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}