{"id":1898,"date":"2012-03-12T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2012-03-12T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T17:35:10","slug":"butter-like-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/butter-like-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter like Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1901\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buddhaButter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1901     \" title=\"buddhaButter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buddhaButter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buddhaButter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buddhaButter-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/buddhaButter-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The states of fat form a Counterwealth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another grand experiment begins!<\/p>\n<p>Having recently been told that butter need not be religiously refrigerated, I have migrated a stick from the fridge to the counter housing our other household fats.<\/p>\n<p>Note: don&#8217;t miss our groundbreaking, informative\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/16\/churn-baby-churn\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post on butter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day #1 of Countertop Butter &#8211; 3\/12\/12<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6:30AM: Put butter on warm <em>When Pigs Fly<\/em> raisin bread. Room temperature butter goes on warm bread about how you&#8217;d imagine soft butter would go on warmed bread. Bread tasted really buttery.<\/li>\n<li>6:35AM: Not sick.<\/li>\n<li>11:41AM: Still not sick.<\/li>\n<li>12:00PM: Now leaning toward the idea that butter, like honey, is magical and takes care of itself&#8230; and butter doesn&#8217;t need angry bees&#8230; just ceramic Buddha&#8230; and you can hang out with butter without looking over your shoulder for bears. <em>Grizzly Man<\/em> is a terrible film, but it did get me thinking about man-eating bears and the need to not let man-eating bears regain a foothold in Boston&#8230; if they ever had a foothold in Boston. If the great white sharks are back, can the bears really be all that far behind them?<\/li>\n<li>12:45PM: Wondering if countertop butter attracts unwanted ants.<\/li>\n<li>12:50PM: Wondering if unwanted ants (who apparently have supernatural strength for their size) can lift Buddha to get at the butter.<\/li>\n<li>1:23PM: Confident that Buddha&#8217;s too heavy for the ants. Contemplating setting up a Butter-cam, though&#8230; just to be safe.<\/li>\n<li>2:45PM: Wondering if people would pay to watch a Web feed from my butter cam. This is the type of thing that you&#8217;d probably think was stupid (and you&#8217;d be correct), but the real question is not &#8220;is it stupid,&#8221; but rather &#8220;are there enough stupid people willing to pay to see something stupid.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>3:15PM: Still waiting for my business agent to return my call. *Sigh*<\/li>\n<li>11:07PM: I asked ceramic butter-keeper Buddha, &#8220;what is butter?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;forty years and three pounds of flax.&#8221; Butter Buddha is wise&#8230; or I&#8217;m drunk&#8230; again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another grand experiment begins! Having recently been told that butter need not be religiously refrigerated, I have migrated a stick from the fridge to the counter housing our other household fats. Note: don&#8217;t miss our groundbreaking, informative\u00a0earlier post on butter. Day #1 of Countertop Butter &#8211; 3\/12\/12 6:30AM: Put butter on warm When Pigs Fly &#8230; <a title=\"Butter like Buddha\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/butter-like-buddha\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Butter like Buddha\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butter-2","tag-butter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moorezilla.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}