{"id":59,"date":"2009-08-18T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escribble.wordpress.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2009-08-18T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T15:29:44","slug":"chain-letters-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/18\/chain-letters-emails\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain letters &amp; emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">T<\/span>hose glorious days when I reel with anguish awaiting for Pa&#8217;s letter. Pa was pretty much working out station most of our child hood. We relied on snail-mail services as point of communication. But one day, things went awfully bad when I opened a letter addressed to Ma. It was a chain letter, something I was not sure at that time. When I confronted Ma, she was quite bemused and rigid.<\/p>\n<p>Remember those good ol&#8217; days chain letter fiasco&#8217;s? It&#8217;s not the end&#8212;I keep getting them in my e-mailbox! Sigh! Is it just me, or does it spell omen? I am not superstitious, but I try not to get it in my head nor risking any one. By following my instincts, I thought, <em>&#8220;why not just forward this email as requested in the chain letter?&#8221;<\/em>. Trust me, I am a risk taker, but chain letter&#8217;s like these freaks me out! I proceed forwarding the chain emails to everyone on my mailing list. I feel for them. Seriously I do. Sigh. Do you get any chain emails lately?<\/p>\n<address><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Don&#8217;t you dare spam me with all those chain emails &#8211; Yes, I admit getting freaked out&#8212;one of my petty weaknesses. But I am also very good at returning the favor, if you know what I mean \ud83d\ude00<\/em><\/span><\/address>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<address> <\/address>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><em>Update: For those who are unfamiliar with chain letters, you can read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chain_letter\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those glorious days when I reel with anguish awaiting for Pa&#8217;s letter. Pa was pretty much working out station most of our child hood. We relied on snail-mail services as point of communication. But one day, things went awfully bad when I opened a letter addressed to Ma. It was a chain letter, something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[99,170,309,448],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snippets","tag-chain-letters","tag-email","tag-mailbox","tag-snail-mail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBcTv-X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirantarun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}