{"id":1882,"date":"2012-02-20T09:01:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T14:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2012-02-20T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T18:13:28","slug":"q-o-t-d-who-would-you-most-like-to-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/02\/20\/q-o-t-d-who-would-you-most-like-to-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Q.O.T.D.: Who would you most like to mail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1883\" title=\"draculastamp\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/draculastamp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"238\" \/>Many faces have appeared on US postage over the years, but they have all had one thing in common. They were the faces of dead people (or in the case of Elvis&#8211;allegedly dead). In 1997 the circle was widened to include the undead&#8211; as shown by this stamp honoring Bela Lugosi&#8217;s portrayal of Dracula&#8211;but the living were still barred.<\/p>\n<p>Now the US stamp design commission has opened the honors up to living Americans. Today&#8217;s Question of the Day is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Which living American should be the first to appear on a US postage stamp? <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Exception to the rule department:<\/em><br \/>\nSee Terri Gilchrist comments below. There has been a US postage stamp featuring living Americans&#8211;Navy sailors in a 1945 commemorative 3-cent stamp, including her father, Paul Franz. This is the stamp, inset in the US Navy archive photo from which it was taken:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1887\" title=\"navystamp_480\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/navystamp_480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/navystamp_480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2012\/02\/navystamp_480-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Question of the Day is: Which living American should be the first to appear on a US postage stamp? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}