{"id":113,"date":"2014-02-06T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T05:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/?p=113"},"modified":"2014-02-12T16:03:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T00:03:35","slug":"the-most-durable-plates-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/the-most-durable-plates-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Durable Plates Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/LeMenu.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-114\" title=\"LeMenu Plates\" alt=\"LeMenu Plates\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/LeMenu.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/LeMenu.jpg 640w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/LeMenu-300x126.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/files\/2014\/02\/LeMenu-624x262.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Actually two are genuine LeMenu plates, and two are Stouffer&#8217;s.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When we got married 25 years ago, we had about 6 LeMenu plates &#8211; the type on the left in the picture. These may have already been several years old at the time. We also got 9 Noritake china plates as wedding gifts &#8211; the type on the right above.<\/p>\n<p>And look what&#8217;s left today: The LeMenu plates now outnumber the Noritake. Ironically, the LeMenu plates were considered so cheap and expendable that they were used over and over to microwave things, or whenever a little tray was needed to hold small parts. Actually, I think the 2 lost LeMenu plates were used at catch basins under potted plants. I wish that frozen dinners would come with these plates today. I would pay more for a dinner, just to get that plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we got married 25 years ago, we had about 6 LeMenu plates &#8211; the type on the left in the picture. These may have already been several years old at the time. We also got 9 Noritake china plates as wedding gifts &#8211; the type on the right above. And look what&#8217;s left today: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/the-most-durable-plates-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Most Durable Plates Ever<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,4,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}