{"id":325,"date":"2004-12-23T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/12\/23\/design-snob-meets-food-snob\/"},"modified":"2004-12-23T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2004-12-23T14:54:14","slug":"design-snob-meets-food-snob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/12\/23\/design-snob-meets-food-snob\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Snob Meets Food Snob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a509'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>This is a battle that I have already lost.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>For&nbsp;the kitchen, I decided that it would be accented with cool hues, grayish blues, muted greens, and the like.&nbsp; This was the aesthetic that I wanted to foster.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Last night, however, Finch brought home his Christmas present from his mother.&nbsp; A set of Le Creuset in red.&nbsp; Not just red, but lipstick red, a rather garish shade in contrast to what I had in mind for the kitchen.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Finch absolutely loves Le Creuset.&nbsp; One of his proudest purchases were a couple of limited-edition, two-toned pieces when we first started dating.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>He will not budge on the red Le Creuset.&nbsp; He will not trade it for a blue set because he thinks the blue is ugly.&nbsp; He will not trade it for a set of All Clad because he thinks All Clad sucks.&nbsp; So, with his whimpering, &#8220;Please, please, can I have <EM>my<\/EM> Le Creuset?&#8221; the kitchen has now taken a&nbsp; horrible, French country turn.&nbsp; So much for modernism.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>At least we can return the red, non-Le Cruset appliances.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a battle that I have already lost. For&nbsp;the kitchen, I decided that it would be accented with cool hues, grayish blues, muted greens, and the like.&nbsp; This was the aesthetic that I wanted to foster. Last night, however, Finch brought home his Christmas present from his mother.&nbsp; A set of Le Creuset in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}