{"id":21440,"date":"2009-01-09T18:53:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=698"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:30:16","slug":"mysteries-of-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/mysteries-of-the-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of the Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked by what I found in the dinette bench behind the driver&#8217;s seat: dozens of plastic hangers! I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking! Let&#8217;s just say I got rid of them quickly!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a shot of the drawer into that compartment that constitutes poor design:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_699\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"size-full wp-image-699\" title=\"dinettebench\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/dinettebench.jpg\" alt=\"The infamous dinette bench drawer\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The infamous dinette bench drawer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you in on a secret: that drawer is so hard to open that I store my most often used plasticware in&#8230; the fridge&#8217;s vegetable bin!<\/p>\n<p>I was able to put two small totes in there. One holds the blender and the other linens. The blender will still be accessible here. I had it in a basket over the fridge, but it made the basket so heavy as to be dangerous to pull down. It&#8217;s still not the best use of space, but better.<\/p>\n<p>The other bench holds a lifetime&#8217;s worth of journals, all carefully sealed against potential flooding. And I thought they were in an overhead compartment in the study. Which leads me to wonder what&#8217;s in the overhead compartment?<\/p>\n<p>I think I need to make a map of what&#8217;s where!<\/p>\n<p>(I love the expression on Neelix&#8217;s face in this picture!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked by what I found in the dinette bench behind the driver&#8217;s seat: dozens of plastic hangers! I don&#8217;t know what I was thinking! Let&#8217;s just say I got rid of them quickly! Here&#8217;s a shot of the drawer into that compartment that constitutes poor design: I&#8217;ll let you in on a secret: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,6,635,5,1375,3],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-21440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-north-america","category-rving","category-surrey","category-travel","tag-cats-in-an-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}