{"id":1420,"date":"2009-08-03T10:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T14:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2025-11-20T15:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:42:52","slug":"an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I got divorced from my ex-husband in 1989, it was a very stressful eight months of going back and forth between lawyers and negotiating over every possible detail involving the custody of our children. During the middle of all the negotiations, Christmas arrived with all the usual mail full of holiday cards. But this year, one particular card stood out amongst all the other business Christmas cards<\/strong><\/a> I had received. It was from my lawyer and it was the most beautiful and peaceful card I had ever seen. It was a slate blue winter scene with silver snowflakes and a silver full moon. It was the same color blue as my kitchen, so when Christmas was over, I threw all the others cards I received away except for the one from my lawyer. I put it in a Ziploc bag and said I would get a frame for it and hang it in my kitchen.<\/p>\n

Several years passed and I got a job working for a company that sells Christmas cards. After my two week training period, I was on the phone selling cards and looking through the catalog, and there was the beautiful card that my lawyer had sent me. I was now working for that company! The card still sat in my kitchen drawer, unframed. Was it fate or irony? The beautiful card that cost me over $5,000 in lawyer\u2019s fees was made by the company I now worked for. The card originally represented peace in the midst of a very stressful period. It now represented my new life at a wonderful greeting cards company!<\/p>\n

Twelve years later the beautiful card still remains in the Ziploc baggie, the white paper just starting to turn yellow around the edges. I don\u2019t want to frame it since my kitchen is no longer a slate blue; but I cannot throw it out either. I guess I will put it back in my kitchen drawer and perhaps when I need some peace in the future I will take it out and look at it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When I got divorced from my ex-husband in 1989, it was a very stressful eight months of going…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[909,41],"class_list":{"0":"post-1420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-christmas-cards","7":"tag-business-christmas-cards","8":"tag-holiday-cards","9":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"\nAn Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake - Gallery Connection<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake - Gallery Connection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When I got divorced from my ex-husband in 1989, it was a very stressful eight months of going…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gallery Connection\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-08-03T14:26:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-20T20:42:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Henry L.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Henry L.\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Henry L.\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b\"},\"headline\":\"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake\",\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-03T14:26:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-20T20:42:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\"},\"wordCount\":350,\"commentCount\":1,\"keywords\":[\"Business Christmas Cards\",\"holiday cards\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Business Christmas Cards\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\",\"name\":\"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake - Gallery Connection\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2009-08-03T14:26:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-20T20:42:52+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Gallery Connection\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b\",\"name\":\"Henry L.\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d36563ef39f0e81ca59f4c1228c7d5472aa91c609af32dd9faf249a82d21dbce?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d36563ef39f0e81ca59f4c1228c7d5472aa91c609af32dd9faf249a82d21dbce?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Henry L.\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake - Gallery Connection","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake - Gallery Connection","og_description":"When I got divorced from my ex-husband in 1989, it was a very stressful eight months of going…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/","og_site_name":"Gallery Connection","article_published_time":"2009-08-03T14:26:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-11-20T20:42:52+00:00","author":"Henry L.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Henry L.","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/"},"author":{"name":"Henry L.","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b"},"headline":"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake","datePublished":"2009-08-03T14:26:36+00:00","dateModified":"2025-11-20T20:42:52+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/"},"wordCount":350,"commentCount":1,"keywords":["Business Christmas Cards","holiday cards"],"articleSection":["Business Christmas Cards"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/","url":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/","name":"An Ironic Business Christmas Cards Keepsake - Gallery Connection","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-08-03T14:26:36+00:00","dateModified":"2025-11-20T20:42:52+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-christmas-cards\/an-ironic-business-christmas-cards-keepsake\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/","name":"Gallery Connection","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/354a198a194eb6492cbacff6edb7440b","name":"Henry L.","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d36563ef39f0e81ca59f4c1228c7d5472aa91c609af32dd9faf249a82d21dbce?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d36563ef39f0e81ca59f4c1228c7d5472aa91c609af32dd9faf249a82d21dbce?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Henry L."}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13303,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/13303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}