{"id":132,"date":"2017-04-18T16:55:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T23:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/?p=132"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:41:49","slug":"calling-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/calling-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On long trips, I like to bring something with me to hand out. In 1988, it was a <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/angelfire\/wisdom.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">xeroxed paper<\/a>. In 2010, it was a calling card printed by our home inkjet. Today, young people tell me that no one uses business cards, they just send a contact from their smart phone. I will have that available, but still like paper cards. They require no information from the receiver, so I can hand them to folks who might be wary of letting me have their contact details. And also, I can hold back my cell phone number from them. Finally, it will be quicker to hand over a card than fuss with phones &#8211; important if I meet a cyclist going the other way, and we just stop to chat for a minute without dismounting.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline;\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/files\/2017\/04\/CallingCard2017.jpg\" alt=\"CallingCard2017.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is what the card looks like. Unfortunately, due to ongoing delays, the start date is wrong. There is no phone number on the card, but I can write that in when needed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I found it was actually cheaper to order cards online, than to print them, myself. Vistaprint is probably the best-known place for this sort of thing, but I went to Staples, since they offer free local pickup at their stores. I was able to design and preview the complete card online, on their website. 250 cards for $9.99 plus tax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On long trips, I like to bring something with me to hand out. In 1988, it was a xeroxed paper. In 2010, it was a calling card printed by our home inkjet. Today, young people tell me that no one uses business cards, they just send a contact from their smart phone. I will have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/calling-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calling Cards<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/bike2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}