{"id":157876,"date":"2018-03-23T03:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T07:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=157876"},"modified":"2018-03-23T03:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T07:12:52","slug":"us-postal-service-to-unveil-mister-rogers-postage-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/23\/us-postal-service-to-unveil-mister-rogers-postage-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service to unveil Mister Rogers postage stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_157885\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-157885\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mister-Rogers-Congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157885\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mister-Rogers-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"Mister Rogers (Photo By http:\/\/www.fredrogers.org\/frc\/news\/mister-rogers-goes-washington-may-1-1969 - United States Senate via fredrogers.org, Public Domain)\" width=\"450\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mister-Rogers-Congress.jpg 450w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Mister-Rogers-Congress-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-157885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mister Rogers (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=65963995\">Photo By http:\/\/www.fredrogers.org\/frc\/news\/mister-rogers-goes-washington-may-1-1969 &#8211; United States Senate via fredrogers.org, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PITTSBURGH \u00a0\u2014 It&#8217;s a beautiful day to honour Mister Rogers with a postage stamp.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Postal Service is releasing a stamp featuring Fred Rogers, the gentle TV host who entertained and educated generations of preschoolers on \u201cMister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cforever\u201d stamp goes on sale Friday. It pictures Rogers in his trademark cardigan along with King Friday, a puppet character from the show&#8217;s Neighborhood of Make-Believe.<\/p>\n<p>Postal officials are holding a dedication ceremony at the Pittsburgh studio where Rogers filmed his beloved PBS show, which aired between 1968 and 2001. Rogers died in 2003 at age 74.<\/p>\n<p>Among those planning to attend the ceremony are Rogers&#8217; widow and David Newell, who played Mr. McFeely, the deliveryman on \u201cMister Rogers&#8217; Neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u00a0\u2014 It&#8217;s a beautiful day to honour Mister Rogers with a postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service is releasing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":157885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48905,48904,48907,48908,48906],"class_list":["post-157876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-fred-rogers","tag-mister-rogers","tag-mister-rogers-postage-stamp","tag-postage-stamp","tag-us-postal-service","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}