{"id":7531,"date":"2009-10-18T11:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2009-10-18T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T18:31:34","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-worlds-champion-bull-thrower-coffee-mug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-worlds-champion-bull-thrower-coffee-mug\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; &#8220;World&#8217;s Champion Bull Thrower&#8221; Coffee Mug"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7533\" title=\"bull-thrower-cup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup.jpg\" alt=\"bull-thrower-cup\" width=\"550\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/>\n<p>The first thing I do on Sunday mornings is to brew a reallllly strong cup of coffee, well, decaf, and set about trying to knock out all the tasks I know will make the coming week much easier if they&#8217;re not piled up and waiting for me Monday morning. This big bull cup holds twice as much as a normal coffee cup and I&#8217;ve used it so much I almost look at it as my pet.<\/p>\n<p>The cup looks somewhere between mass-produced and handmade, only one coat of glaze on the lettering &#8211; as a ceramicist myself I can tell you this comes from pure laziness &#8211; as well as parts of the bull being a little lumpier than he should be. No manufacturing marks anywhere so who knows? &nbsp;I just know I&#8217;m a pretty good bull thrower myself and lifting this cup puts a smile on my lips whether bull&#8217;s coming out of them or not.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7535\" title=\"bull-thrower-cup_3922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup_3922.jpg\" alt=\"bull-thrower-cup_3922\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup_3922.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup_3922-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7537\" title=\"bull-thrower-cup_3931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup_3931.jpg\" alt=\"bull-thrower-cup_3931\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup_3931.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bull-thrower-cup_3931-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing I do on Sunday mornings is to brew a reallllly strong cup of coffee, well, decaf, and set about trying to knock out all the tasks I know will make the coming week much easier if they&#8217;re not piled up and waiting for me Monday morning. This big bull cup holds twice &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-worlds-champion-bull-thrower-coffee-mug\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,191,181,87,193],"tags":[61,3232,3245,703],"class_list":["post-7531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-drink","category-furniture-and-housewares","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-worlds-champion-bull-thrower-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}