{"id":1078,"date":"2006-06-01T16:24:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T21:56:36","slug":"mentone-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1078","title":{"rendered":"Mentone Egg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This image is a little closer to home than Hong Kong, etc. It&#8217;s in Mentone, Indiana, &#8220;The Egg Basket of the Midwest.&#8221; Steve and I were driving from Grand Rapids and picked this up on the way back. I had this beauty in my Big Things to Photograph file for years but never had a chance to get to Mentone. And what do you know, we arrived as the town was getting ready for their <em>Egg Festival!<\/em> Main street was blocked off and booths were being set up. We didn&#8217;t stay around but I bet you could get a nice Pork Tenderloin or Elephant Ear there.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1079\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1079\" data-attachment-id=\"1079\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?attachment_id=1079\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?fit=1050%2C1268\" data-orig-size=\"1050,1268\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A520&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1149179083&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.8125&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mentone Egg\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;06egg &#8211; IMG_0008&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mentone Egg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?fit=145%2C175\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?fit=494%2C597\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1079\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?resize=248%2C300\" alt=\"egg\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?resize=248%2C300 248w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?resize=848%2C1024 848w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?resize=124%2C150 124w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/06egg.jpg?w=1050 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 248px) 100vw, 248px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mentone Egg<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is a little closer to home than Hong Kong, etc. It&#8217;s in Mentone, Indiana, &#8220;The Egg Basket of the Midwest.&#8221; Steve and I were driving from Grand Rapids and picked this up on the way back. I had this beauty in my Big Things to Photograph file for \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/?p=1078\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZlNF-ho","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jimsbigthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}