{"id":25,"date":"2005-05-01T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2005-05-01T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-05-01T22:22:28","modified_gmt":"2005-05-01T22:22:28","slug":"useless-umbra-compact-dish-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2005\/05\/01\/useless-umbra-compact-dish-rack\/","title":{"rendered":"Useless Umbra Compact Dish Rack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizrate.com\/marketplace\/product_info\/large_image__oid--255069692.html\" target=\"x\">This Umbra Compact Dish Rack<\/a> is perhaps the most useless kitchen item I have ever purchased.  One website  claims &#8220;This self-draining compact dish rack from Umbra is a modern essential, especially well-suited to small kitchens with limited counter space.&#8221; Ha!  <\/p>\n<p>It is indeed an attracive and compact bit of folding plastic &#8211; that looks a little bit like translucent fish bones.  And it is at a nice angle for draining.  The problem is that dishes don&#8217;t stand up in it, as advertised, rendering it entirely useless for its stated purpose.  Avoid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Umbra Compact Dish Rack is perhaps the most useless kitchen item I have ever purchased. One website claims &#8220;This self-draining compact dish rack from Umbra is a modern essential, especially well-suited to small kitchens with limited counter space.&#8221; Ha! It is indeed an attracive and compact bit of folding plastic &#8211; that looks a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2005\/05\/01\/useless-umbra-compact-dish-rack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Useless Umbra Compact Dish Rack&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}