{"id":24843,"date":"2011-01-27T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=24843"},"modified":"2011-01-27T11:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:34:56","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-seriously-ugly-coffee-mug-from-dyersville-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-seriously-ugly-coffee-mug-from-dyersville-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day \u2013 Seriously Ugly Coffee Mug from Dyersville, Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n

I’m not sure what goes on in Dyersville, Iowa but I sure hope it’s not a factory that specializes in turning out coffee mugs as this is one of the most seriously ugly ones I’ve ever seen. And, trust me, as a purveyor of kitsch I’ve seen a lot of them. If this is truly “Where Dreams Come True\u201d, I hope that at least one Dyersville citizen is dreaming about a new coffee mug design.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

The trees are in relief so your fingers bump up and down as they rest on the cup. There’s a layer of nice green ones that are then mysteriously covered over by a layer of brown and dead looking ones. It actually looks like there was a more intricate design underneath but the bowel brown trees apparently appealed more to the artisan.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Okay, I just googled Dyersville and I think the mystery is solved! According to the Chamber of Commerce, Dyersville has a population of 4000 and is known as the Farm Toy Capital of the World.\u00a0 I would suggest the next run of mugs should feature miniature tractors and the like but that will never happen because of this: \u201cDyersville is also the home of the Academy Award nominated film, Field of Dreams.\u201d Which explains the over-forestation on the coffee mug. Though I believe that a field consists of a patch of cleared land. Next time I hope someone mows the mugs before they hit the shelves.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not sure what goes on in Dyersville, Iowa but I sure hope it’s not a factory that specializes in turning out coffee mugs as this is one of the most seriously ugly ones I’ve ever seen. And, trust me, as a purveyor of kitsch I’ve seen a lot of them. If this is truly … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[625,191,1063,181,1367,87,193,1489],"tags":[61,2123,2121,2117,2320,2119,3232,3245,2125],"class_list":["post-24843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising-promotion","category-drink","category-film","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitchen","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-travel-souvenir","tag-allee-willis","tag-coffee-mug-travel","tag-coffee-mug-vintage","tag-dyersville","tag-field-of-dreams-mug","tag-iowa","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-where-dreams-come-true-coffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}