{"id":5468,"date":"2014-11-10T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5468"},"modified":"2014-11-04T10:58:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T15:58:32","slug":"i-only-dabble-in-philately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/i-only-dabble-in-philately\/","title":{"rendered":"I only dabble in Philately"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or barely dabble.\u00a0 I’m sure a philatelist<\/a> would have a conniption at the state of my stamps.\u00a0 My collections would be much more pleasing to a numismatist<\/a>, but he would probably say that mine was a very mundane assortment; probably worthless.\u00a0 Likewise a petrologist<\/a> would yawn, I imagine, until we got to the meteorites.\u00a0 I could almost be a deltiologist<\/a>, but every time I gather up a good batch, I only try to find reasons to send them out in the mail.\u00a0 I’d probably be better at it if the mail brought them to me instead.<\/p>\n

I used to be a devoted arctophilist<\/a>, and still have many stuffed friends from my childhood, but have since mostly dismantled my collection.<\/p>\n

I was never personally drawn to phillumeny<\/a>, but I did inherit a lovely collection of matchbooks whose sulfur emissions are tightly contained by a gigantic jar.\u00a0 Woe to those that open it, though sometimes I do just to wake my nose up.\u00a0 My mother was very much a gnomologist<\/a>, and I briefly followed in her footsteps until I tried paroemiography<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

Lepidoptery<\/a> always kind of creeped me out, and I find oology<\/a> similarly squicky.\u00a0 Though I can kind of understand, the homes of plangonologists<\/a> put me on edge as well, all those eyes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or barely dabble.\u00a0 I’m sure a philatelist would have a conniption at the state of my stamps.\u00a0 My collections would be much more pleasing to a numismatist, but he would probably say that mine was a very mundane assortment; probably worthless.\u00a0 Likewise a petrologist would yawn, I imagine, until we got to the meteorites.\u00a0 I… Continue reading I only dabble in Philately<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[160,81],"class_list":["post-5468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-language","tag-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5635,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/12\/12\/its-my-blogiversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":5468,"position":0},"title":"It’s my blogiversary","author":"leems","date":"December 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I just accidentally reminded myself that eight years ago I wrote the first post on the first incarnation of the LeEMS Bean, also called the LeEMS Bean.\u00a0 Happy birthday Bean!\u00a0 The first post was boring, but this one from 2008 is interesting: 1 July 2008 11:56 EDT | Posted by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9163,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/08\/26\/voting-during-a-pandemic\/","url_meta":{"origin":5468,"position":1},"title":"Voting During a Pandemic","author":"leems","date":"August 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Are you already registered to vote by mail? 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