{"id":94,"date":"2017-03-30T21:21:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-03-30T21:21:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T01:21:50","slug":"what-is-junk-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/30\/what-is-junk-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What is junk, anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person&#8217;s trash is often another&#8217;s treasure. Go back a hundred years plus, and the same was true then, as well. The town of Clinton, Massachusetts issues porcelain license plates to local registrants for several different purposes, each with a unique type of porcelain plate. This is a junk license plate, likely issued to someone that had a business of harvesting scrap, or junk, within the town of Clinton. I found this screwed to a wall in a restaurant in Bolton, Mass in 2013. Luckily, I was able to strike a deal and bring it home. On a scarcity scale of 1 to 10, with ten being the scarcest, I&#8217;d give it a 10. it&#8217;s the only one known to collectors.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46\" src=\"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5908-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5908-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5908-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_5908-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person&#8217;s trash is often another&#8217;s treasure. Go back a hundred years plus, and the same was true then, as well. The town of Clinton, Massachusetts issues porcelain license plates to local registrants for several different purposes, each with a unique type of porcelain plate. This is a junk license plate, likely issued to someone &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/30\/what-is-junk-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is junk, anyway?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newenglandplates.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}