{"id":1779,"date":"2004-07-14T22:25:37","date_gmt":"2004-07-15T03:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2004-07-14T22:25:37","modified_gmt":"2004-07-15T03:25:37","slug":"railroad-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1779","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SkagwayWPYR.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/archives\/images\/SkagwayWPYR.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the cool souvenirs that we got in Skagway was a set of playing cards from the White Pass &amp; Yukon Route depot shop.  They&#8217;re a reproduction of the playing cards that they provided to passengers in the early 1900&#8217;s.  The cards all have photos of various landmarks in the area.  I suppose if you&#8217;re too busy playing cards to actually look out the window, you&#8217;ll at least have some idea of what you missed.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of missing things and cards, a large set of the postcards we sent out from Alaska haven&#8217;t arrived yet.  We mailed about 15 cards when we were in Skagway and there&#8217;s no sign of them.  Kind of vexing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the cool souvenirs that we got in Skagway was a set of playing cards from the White Pass &amp; Yukon Route depot shop. They&#8217;re a reproduction of the playing cards that they provided to passengers in the early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31,27],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-alaska","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}