{"id":60797,"date":"2016-04-07T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T07:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=60797"},"modified":"2016-04-07T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T07:09:26","slug":"butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60797","title":{"rendered":"Molly Moo-cow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re passionate about pollinators, then you probably know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59429\"><u>butterflies love milkweed<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60799\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60799\" class=\"wp-image-60799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/800px-Great_spangled_fritillary_on_common_milkweed_butterfly_speyeria_cybele.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"236\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Barnes Dr Thomas G, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But here\u2019s a trickier bit of trivia:<\/p>\n<p>Why are butterflies called <em>butter<\/em> flies?<\/p>\n<p>(As a Butters, I simply had to know.)<\/p>\n<p>Butterflies, it is said, earned their name back when they would flutter around the milk pails and butter churns on farms.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60801\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60801\" class=\"wp-image-60801\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A_milkmaid_entering_a_pen_in_which_a_cowherd_is_leaning_on_o_Wellcome_V0020927.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"273\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">milkmaid, G. Morland via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Makes sense, but also makes you wonder why <em>these<\/em> aren\u2019t called milklappers (buckettippers?) \u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60802\" style=\"width: 371px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60802\" class=\"wp-image-60802\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/800px-Cats_on_a_Farm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"361\" height=\"203\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-60802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by David Maitland via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Anymoooo \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a cute 1935 classic called \u201cMolly Moo-Cow and the Butterflies,\u201d just for fun:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g_HdV6k-edA\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re passionate about pollinators, then you probably know that butterflies love milkweed. But here\u2019s a trickier bit of trivia: Why are butterflies called butter flies? (As a Butters, I simply had to know.) Butterflies, it is said, earned their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/60797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}