{"id":1462,"date":"2003-09-19T23:05:41","date_gmt":"2003-09-20T03:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/09\/19\/ugliest-couch-in-america\/"},"modified":"2003-09-19T23:05:41","modified_gmt":"2003-09-20T03:05:41","slug":"ugliest-couch-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/19\/ugliest-couch-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugliest Couch in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1172'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/ucouch.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"146\">\n        <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"418\">\n<p align=\"left\">NEW YORK, Sept. 16 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Sure Fit<br \/>\n        Inc. announced the winner of its ninth annual Ugly Couch Contest today,<br \/>\n        which was chosen by a live studio audience this morning on &quot;Live<br \/>\n        with Regis and Kelly.&quot; Camille Hempel of Brooklyn, New York, proudly<br \/>\n        accepted the $5,000 prize for her three-legged shabby pink velvet loveseat<br \/>\n        complete with mud-colored foam seat cushions and cinder block replacement<br \/>\n        leg. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/prnews\/030916\/nytu168_1.html\">from<br \/>\n          PRNewswire<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, Sept. 16 \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; Sure Fit Inc. announced the winner of its ninth annual Ugly Couch Contest today, which was chosen by a live studio audience this morning on &quot;Live with Regis and Kelly.&quot; Camille Hempel of Brooklyn, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/09\/19\/ugliest-couch-in-america\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}