{"id":14,"date":"2006-10-26T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laimayleng.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2024-09-10T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T06:28:40","slug":"happy-deepa-raya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/happy-deepa-raya\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Deepa Raya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><\/span><br \/>You&#8217;ve got mail ! Surely, this sounds rather common to those who receives e-cards. I think I&#8217;m one of the dinasours who still prefers the old fashion way, hardcopy holiday greeting cards.<br \/>This year round, I came late on my delivery of greeting cards. I procastinated. My conscience creeped up two days back.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I gave myself a slap on the back and hit on the nearest bookstore to purchase my bulks of processed paper. To my utter dissapointment, I could not find any Deepavali cards ! There were plenty of packed Raya cards. The person behind the counter raised an eyebrow and said &#8220;this year limited Deepavali cards, stock habis&#8221;. I was not satisfied with the answer, determined to find my cards, I rushed to the next nearby hypermarket. I searched high and low, lucky for me .. I found one 10 packed cards lying on the display area.<\/p>\n<p>It was rather quite funny, I had two workers helping me locate the packets of cards from the large bulk. As I was frantically tossing the cards all over the basket, I muffled, &#8220;nobody celebrates Deepavali, keh?&#8221;. The men looked at me, puzzled and speechless.<\/p>\n<p>Albeit all the effort, I smiled to myself. Feeling gratified and content that I finally mailed my Raya and Deepavali cards today. If you received my card late, my sincere apologies. Next year round, I&#8217;ll kick my butt earlier. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve got mail ! Surely, this sounds rather common to those who receives e-cards. I think I&#8217;m one of the dinasours who still prefers the old fashion way, hardcopy holiday greeting cards.This year round, I came late on my delivery of greeting cards. I procastinated. My conscience creeped up two days back. Finally, I gave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-in-a-days-work","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laimayleng.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}