{"id":414,"date":"2009-02-12T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T15:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:43:00","slug":"yes-i-am-a-stamp-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/yes-i-am-a-stamp-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes i am a stamp geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail have brought out a set of stamps to commemorate 150 years since Darwin released the publication of &#8216;On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection&#8217;. I have bought a set of the stamps from my local post office this morning &amp; I LOVE them. I have always had a soft spot for stamps, and they always seem to bring out my inner geek.<br \/>\nStamps are available from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmail.com\/portal\/stamps\/jump1?catId=32300674&amp;mediaId=91400755\">The Royal Mail website<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-415\" title=\"rwin\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rwin.jpg?resize=417%2C285&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"rwin\" width=\"417\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rwin.jpg?w=417&amp;ssl=1 417w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/rwin.jpg?resize=300%2C205&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also have a Darwin badge on the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&amp;search_in_description=1&amp;keyword=darwin\">koolbadges website<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-416\" title=\"darwinbadges\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/darwinbadges.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"darwinbadges\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/darwinbadges.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/darwinbadges.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy Charles Darwin Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Mail have brought out a set of stamps to commemorate 150 years since Darwin released the publication of &#8216;On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection&#8217;. I have bought a set of the stamps from my local post office this morning &amp; I LOVE them. I have always had a soft spot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/yes-i-am-a-stamp-geek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes i am a stamp geek<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3019,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}