I like ceramic goblets, which has turned into a minor collecting hobby for me whilst on vacation. So I was particularly annoyed when, last night, I carefully set down my favorite goblet (picked up in Britain two trips back) on the edge of the counter, then knocked it over as I withdrew my hand. <\/p>\n
Ah, well. At least it wasn’t Jackie breaking off the handle of another coffee cup. It’s been a bad month for ceramics in our house …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I like ceramic goblets, which has turned into a minor collecting hobby for me whilst on vacation. So I was particularly annoyed when, last night, I carefully set down my…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9887,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/an_industrious_weekend.html","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":0},"title":"An industrious weekend","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Oct-06 6:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the course of the weekend, I ... ... climbed up on the roof to try and seal around the flashing that's been leaking. ... planted a zillion bulbs in...","rel":"","context":"In "Home Improvement"","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4061,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/21\/uk03_parting_th.html","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":1},"title":"UK03 – Parting Thoughts","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 21-Feb-03 11:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Pictures will follow, have no fear....","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8872,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/31\/crafty.html","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":2},"title":"Crafty","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Mar-06 9:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Margie had a brainstorm about a venue for Katherine's birthday party -- hold it at this ceremics-painting shop we've seen over near the Rock Bottom restaurant by Park Meadows....","rel":"","context":"In "Parenting"","block_context":{"text":"Parenting","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/parenting"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20516,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/annualish-wist-tabulation.html","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":3},"title":"Annualish WIST tabulation","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Mar-11 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So in my copious free time, I run a website for collecting quotations. Or, rather, a website where I indulge that hobby of mine -- WIST (Wish I'd Said That).\u00a0 I just did my more-or-less annual review of numbers and what quotes are most popular ... and it's remarkable to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Quotations (WIST)"","block_context":{"text":"Quotations (WIST)","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/wist"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11083,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/ceramic_or_styrofoam.html","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":4},"title":"Ceramic or styrofoam","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-07 7:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kinda cool 1994 study on the energy cost in using a ceramic coffee mug vs. a paper or styrofoam cup, Counting manufacture and\u00a0dishwashing costs, you'd have to use a...","rel":"","context":"In "Coffee"","block_context":{"text":"Coffee","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/food-drink\/coffee"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":119122,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/religious-liberty-means-never-having-to-say-the-law-applies-to-you-11.html","url_meta":{"origin":6535,"position":5},"title":"Religious liberty means never having to say the law applies to you","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Aug-15 8:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"A Missouri Republican legislator objects to having to pay for birth control coverage for his three daughters -- two of whom are adults -- and is suing for a personal belief exemption from the ACA, along the lines of Hobby Lobby.Of course, the basis for the Hobby Lobby decision was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}