{"id":240,"date":"2004-08-18T14:29:34","date_gmt":"2004-08-18T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=240"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"philatelics_get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/philatelics_get\/","title":{"rendered":"Philatelics get ready to grab up Dilip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000144.html\" target=\"_blank\">they were going to hang a portrait of him in the U.S. Capitol Building<\/a>.  Next they were going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/000179.html\" target=\"_blank\">name a building somewhere in California after him<\/a>.  NOW they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/181_947275,00050001.htm\" target=\"_blank\">thinking of commemorating him on a stamp<\/a>!  Dilip Singh Saund is the most popular brown man in America right now even though he&#8217;s dead.<\/p>\n\n<p>There is only one problem as I see it.  This idea is coming too late.  Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2004\/08\/10\/news\/midcaps\/personal_stamps\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Stamps.com announced a partnership with the U.S. Postal Service<\/a> which will allow anybody with spare change in their pockets to create a customized stamp.  That&#8217;s right.  <a href=\"http:\/\/photo.stamps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Now you can put your own picture on an official U.S. stamp<\/a> and mail it anywhere you want.  That being the case, the once sacred honor of being displayed on a stamp, has been cheapened.  How <i>cheap<\/i> you ask?  Well to put it into perspective I took the liberty of creating a stamp of me, which I could now purchase from the USPS, and one of Saund.  Honestly now, which one would you choose?  Which one would you choose?<\/p>\n\n<p>&lt;<\/p>\n\n<p>p>\n<center><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"stamps.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/stamps.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, they were going to hang a portrait of him in the U.S. Capitol Building. Next they were going to name a building somewhere in California after him. NOW they are thinking of commemorating him on a stamp! Dilip Singh &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/18\/philatelics_get\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}