{"id":3889,"date":"2012-03-27T17:03:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2012-03-27T17:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:03:20","slug":"on_blood_groups_and_butter_knives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2012\/03\/27\/on_blood_groups_and_butter_knives\/","title":{"rendered":"On blood groups and butter knives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nYou can give type O blood to blood groups A and AB. You can give type A  blood to type AB. You cannot give type AB to anybody except AB.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nButter knives in our kitchen work the same way. You can use a knife that has previously been used for Adrian&rsquo;s dairy-free margarine on both butter and Ingrid&rsquo;s liver p&acirc;t&eacute;. A knife that has been in contact with butter can be used for liver p&acirc;t&eacute; but not for margarine. A knife with liver p&acirc;t&eacute; on it can not be used for anything else.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe complication is that remains of butter and margarine are almost impossible to tell apart. So whenever Adrian wants a sandwich, we have to get a new knife for him. This is why there is an almost-constant shortage of butter knives in our kitchen even though we have half a dozen.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(On weekend mornings there is also orange marmalade to be taken into account but that luckily does not look like anything else and can be eaten by everybody.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can give type O blood to blood groups A and AB. You can give type A blood to type AB. You cannot give type AB to anybody except AB. Butter knives in our kitchen work the same way. You can use a knife that has previously been used for Adrian&rsquo;s dairy-free margarine on both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,745],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else","category-food_and_cooking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889","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=3889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3892,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3889\/revisions\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}