{"id":14001,"date":"2025-09-03T15:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/?p=14001"},"modified":"2025-09-03T15:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:19:27","slug":"rgh-all-forgiven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/rgh-all-forgiven\/","title":{"rendered":"RGH, all forgiven"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently wrote a scathing post about RGH<\/a>. The beef was about a sloooowwww order delivery (several months). They promptly responded to my initial query with what turned out to be an overly optimistic delivery date, but then ignored my subsequent inquiries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in their own special way, they finally fulfilled my order. And as they sometimes do, they included a free jar of cadmium yellow. How can I hold a grudge against RGH?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more<\/span>In the Studio Oct. 14 2012<\/span><\/a><\/div>

And a reminder, RGH offers the best value for the all-important lead white. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I recently wrote a scathing post about RGH. The beef was about a sloooowwww order delivery (several months). They promptly responded to my initial query with what turned out to be an overly optimistic delivery date, but then ignored my subsequent inquiries. But in their own special way, they finally fulfilled my order. And as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":14000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[332,208,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grumpy-review","category-materials","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250903_112024.jpg?fit=800%2C1067&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6725,"url":"https:\/\/thomasparkerhudson.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/grumpy-review-rgh-website\/","url_meta":{"origin":14001,"position":0},"title":"Grumpy review: RGH website","author":"Tom Hudson","date":"February 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I placed a paint order on RGH's website, and the agile boys at RGH promptly shipped two 250 ml jars of Paynes\u00a0gray to me. \u00a0Unfortunately, I'd ordered two 250 ml jars of flake white. \u00a0I probably haven't used more than 40ml of Payne's gray in the past five years. 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