{"id":16903,"date":"2023-02-25T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2023-06-01T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:02:39","slug":"daily_2942_-_butter_knives_come_to_us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/02\/25\/daily_2942_-_butter_knives_come_to_us\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2942 &#8211; butter knives come to us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2942_butter_knives.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nEstonian butter knives are the best. Swedish butter knives (not pictured) are better for spreading butter than ordinary table knives, but they&#8217;re thin and the blades are small, so they&#8217;re not very comfortable to use. We somehow manage to wear ours out, so several of them are now barely more than flat sticks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been planning to buy more butter knives of the well-designed Estonian kind when we go to Estonia. I was already planning on it last summer but never found the time. Oh well, we&#8217;ll make do with pointy sticks for another year. But yesterday at the crafts fair I saw a whole huge stand of wooden utensils, including butter knives with sturdy, rounded handles &#8211; and the lovely smell of juniper wood.<\/p>\n<p>At first I thought that maybe some Swedish firm had copied the superior Estonian design, but then I saw the Estonian brand name. No need to wait until summer &#8211; the knives have come to me.<\/p>\n<p>I bought several. And then sniffed at them for a good while before packing them away in my bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonian butter knives are the best. Swedish butter knives (not pictured) are better for spreading butter than ordinary table knives, but they&#8217;re thin and the blades are small, so they&#8217;re not very comfortable to use. We somehow manage to wear ours out, so several of them are now barely more than flat sticks. I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,780,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-estonia","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16904,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions\/16904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}