{"id":545,"date":"2014-01-16T18:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/?p=545"},"modified":"2014-02-17T19:35:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T00:35:27","slug":"dantes-furnace-pompton-lakes-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/archives\/545","title":{"rendered":"Dante&#8217;s Furnace (Pompton Lakes, NJ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/archives\/545\/restaurant_dantesfurnace-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?fit=800%2C815&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,815\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Restaurant_DantesFurnace\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?fit=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?fit=750%2C764&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-555\" alt=\"Restaurant_DantesFurnace\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?resize=640%2C652\" width=\"640\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?resize=230%2C234&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?resize=600%2C611&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?resize=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>New sketchbook theme, as promised. These are restaurant names I found in a 1966 edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.restaurant.org\/Home\" target=\"_blank\">National Restaurant Association<\/a> member directory. The Association still exists, but no longer publishes a list of members.<\/p>\n<p>Dante&#8217;s Furnace seems to be long gone. The only evidence I was able to find of its existence was this<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/1964\/07\/11\/1964_07_11_023_TNY_CARDS_000274854\" target=\"_blank\"> 2-sentence observation <\/a>\u00c2\u00a0from a 1964 <em>New Yorker <\/em>article.<\/p>\n<p>As for the artist on this one: I&#8217;m not sure. All I remember is that I met him that same day, and he was pretty excited about getting to make a literary reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New sketchbook theme, as promised. These are restaurant names I found in a 1966 edition of the National Restaurant Association member directory. The Association still exists, but no longer publishes a list of members. Dante&#8217;s Furnace seems to be long gone. The only evidence I was able to find of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[91,7],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1966-national-restaurant-association","category-theme-sketchbooks","tag-unknown-artist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Restaurant_DantesFurnace1.jpg?fit=800%2C815&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1iEpY-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridge-mag.com\/concoctions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}