{"id":20170,"date":"2016-09-12T06:25:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=20170"},"modified":"2016-09-12T06:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:28:54","slug":"our-town-with-grant-nickalls-lost-art-writing-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/our-town-with-grant-nickalls-lost-art-writing-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Town with Grant Nickalls: The lost art of writing letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each week, Huntsville&#8217;s own Grant Nickalls will inspire us, entertain us, make us laugh or perhaps cry, but always he will remind us why Huntsville is the best place on earth to call home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When was the last time you got a hand-written letter? 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