{"id":16195,"date":"2020-10-05T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16195"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:36:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:36:02","slug":"add-a-healthy-reminder-to-your-mail-with-fruit-and-vegetable-stamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/05\/add-a-healthy-reminder-to-your-mail-with-fruit-and-vegetable-stamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Add a Healthy Reminder to Your Mail with Fruit and Vegetable Stamps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fruit-and-vegetables-stamps-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fruit-and-vegetables-stamps-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fruit-and-vegetables-stamps-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/fruit-and-vegetables-stamps.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/15\/vegetable-stamps\/\">other countries<\/a> who issue postage stamps highlighting fruits and vegetables. On July 17, 2020 the USPS issued booklets of 20 forever stamps featuring 10 different fruits and vegetables. You\u2019ll find eggplants, figs, carrots, blueberries, tomatoes, and other delights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;According to the USPS <a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/product\/buy-stamps\/fruits-and-vegetables-S_682704?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=product&amp;utm_campaign=googlemc&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwtZH7BRDzARIsAGjbK2Yhrwm2JluRlZdLi1YSO197DTMgxQ8aEheWBtSYSrVd94TVcWFj24saAuntEALw_wcB&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">website<\/a>,\nthe artist who created the stamps used real fruits and vegetables for models\nand created a still-life composition for each stamp. Because of the relatively\nshort shelf life of the produce, he also took photos of his compositions to\nfinish his work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I was lucky\nenough to find these at the post office. They can also be ordered on the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.usps.com\/store\/product\/buy-stamps\/fruits-and-vegetables-S_682704?utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=product&amp;utm_campaign=googlemc&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwtZH7BRDzARIsAGjbK2Yhrwm2JluRlZdLi1YSO197DTMgxQ8aEheWBtSYSrVd94TVcWFj24saAuntEALw_wcB&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">USPS\nwebsite<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD The United States has joined other countries who issue postage stamps highlighting fruits and vegetables. On July 17, 2020 the USPS issued booklets of 20 forever stamps featuring 10 different fruits and vegetables. You\u2019ll find eggplants, figs, carrots, blueberries, tomatoes, and other delights. &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;According to the USPS website, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16197,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16195\/revisions\/16197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}