{"id":225,"date":"2007-03-28T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:59","slug":"stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Stamps&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nNow, let&#8217;s make this clear. I like Canadian stamps as much as the next Canadian, perhaps even a bit more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCheck out these stamps of some of my favourite Canadian musicians, writers, places, and, um, cultural heroes, for instance.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/RoyStamp.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/RoyStamp.gif','popup','width=174,height=225,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/RoyStamp-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"77\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"RoyStamp\" title=\"RoyStamp\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/2005_oscar_p_stamp.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/2005_oscar_p_stamp.jpg','popup','width=400,height=393,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/2005_oscar_p_stamp-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2005_oscar_p_stamp\" title=\"2005_oscar_p_stamp\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/2005_alberta_stamp.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/2005_alberta_stamp.jpg','popup','width=317,height=450,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/2005_alberta_stamp-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"70\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"2005_alberta_stamp\" title=\"2005_alberta_stamp\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/stamp_captaincanuck.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/stamp_captaincanuck.jpg','popup','width=244,height=335,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/stamp_captaincanuck-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"72\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"stamp_captaincanuck\" title=\"stamp_captaincanuck\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/stamp_superman.jpg\" height=\"135\" width=\"99\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"stamp_superman\" title=\"stamp_superman\" \/><span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>(Joe Shuster, co-creator of Superman, was Canadian, to answer your question)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBUT, I have to say, this would be one of the years where back in Canada you would have heard me say, &#8220;How come Americans get to buy all the cool stamps?!&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/StarWarsStamps.jpg\" height=\"212\" width=\"164\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"StarWarsStamps\" title=\"StarWarsStamps\" \/>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/marvel250.jpg\" height=\"228\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"marvel250\" title=\"marvel250\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwmartin.blog.uvm.edu\/Wolverine.jpg\" height=\"194\" width=\"152\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Wolverine\" title=\"Wolverine\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow, if only I can find a way to buy a whole pile of Wolverine stamps to use for all of our outgoing mail from Canadian Studies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, let&#8217;s make this clear. 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