{"id":3892,"date":"2012-12-14T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheeseloverca.wordpress.com\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2012-12-14T12:03:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T17:03:52","slug":"youre-becoming-a-true-caseophile-when-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/youre-becoming-a-true-caseophile-when-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re becoming a true caseophile when . . . Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3893\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3893\" alt=\"Vacherin Mont d'Or: The true meaning of Christmas?\" src=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/368223_vacherinmontdor-1.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/368223_vacherinmontdor-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/368223_vacherinmontdor-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/368223_vacherinmontdor-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vacherin Mont d&#8217;Or: The true meaning of Christmas?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Perry Manti<\/p>\n<p><b>You know you\u2019re becoming a true caseophile when . . .<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . on your next vacation to London, you plan on ditching your wife at the British Museum while you check Neal\u2019s Yard Dairy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . your Grade Four students are more familiar with Avonlea Cheddar than with Anne of Green Gables.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . your students can\u2019t find Istanbul on a map, but they know exactly where Epoisses comes from.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . at staff meetings, your teaching colleagues are far more interested in the cheese boards you bring than what the Principal has to say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . if given a choice between a kilogram of Beaufort and a date with Halle Barry, you\u2019d definitely go for the cheese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . for you, the true meaning of Christmas involves Vacherin Mont d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . on Christmas morning, your spouse has to explain to you that buttons of Crottin de Chavignol do not make good stocking stuffers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . the screen saver on your computer is a picture of a cheese cart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . . you realize that 90% of the time, the person working behind the cheese counter knows less about cheese than you do.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">. . .\u00a0 you suffered serious emotional trauma when Fifth Town shut down production.<\/p>\n<p><em>Perry Manti, a teacher by profession, was in the first graduating class of the <a href=\"http:\/\/coned.georgebrown.ca\/owa_prod\/cewskcrss.P_Certificate?area_code=PA0043&amp;cert_code=CE0232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professional Fromager program<\/a> at George Brown College in Toronto.<\/em> <a title=\"You\u2019re becoming a true caseophile when . .\u00a0.\" href=\"http:\/\/cheeseloverca.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/09\/you-know-youre-becoming-a-true-caseophile-when\/\">His first humorous essay on the meaning of being a caseophile<\/a> appeared on CheeseLover.ca last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Perry Manti You know you\u2019re becoming a true caseophile when . . . . . . on your next vacation to London, you plan on ditching your wife at the British Museum while you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,95],"tags":[],"brand":[],"class_list":["post-3892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheese-education","category-cheese-humour"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3892"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheeselover.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=3892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}