{"id":523245,"date":"2010-04-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/weekend-meditation\/weekend-meditation-the-clean-plate-club-113738"},"modified":"2010-04-11T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T09:00:00","slug":"weekend-meditation-the-clean-plate-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523245","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Meditation:  The Clean Plate Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/weekend-meditation\/weekend-meditation-the-clean-plate-club-113738\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2010_04_11-cleanplate.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apartmenttherapy.com\/uimages\/kitchen\/2010_04_11-cleanplate.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"500\" class=\"mt-image-center\" \/><\/a>In a recent post, I casually dropped a reference to the classic childhood memory of being told to clean your plate because children are starving in _____ (fill in with the typical, not-always-accurate-but-usually-far-away, place.)  By the way, do parents still say this these days? <\/p>\n<p>I realized after reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/weekend-meditation-my-very-privileged-compost-113100\">the comments in that post<\/a> that I didn&#8217;t fully express my thoughts about this tactic to get kids to eat their dinner.  Like most of the commenters, I&#8217;m not in favor of it, and have had to work at undoing the habit of cleaning my plate in my own life. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thekitchn.com\/thekitchn\/weekend-meditation\/weekend-meditation-the-clean-plate-club-113738\">Read Full Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/FsfC1BeCy3NXOJ2Tgkngk8ZTmLs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/FsfC1BeCy3NXOJ2Tgkngk8ZTmLs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/FsfC1BeCy3NXOJ2Tgkngk8ZTmLs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/FsfC1BeCy3NXOJ2Tgkngk8ZTmLs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/apartmenttherapy\/thekitchn\/~4\/LKrBY8JgVvw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post, I casually dropped a reference to the classic childhood memory of being told to clean your plate because children are starving in _____ (fill in with the typical, not-always-accurate-but-usually-far-away, place.) By the way, do parents still say this these days? I realized after reading the comments in that post that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}