{"id":319,"date":"2010-06-24T22:31:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T02:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crankopotamus.com\/blog\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-06-25T15:34:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T19:34:28","slug":"vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian Mumbo Jumbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Scene: Nate&#8217;s bedroom, around bedtime. <strong>Nate <\/strong>is sitting on the floor, putting on his pajamas. <strong>Dad <\/strong>is reclining on the bed. <strong>Figaro, <\/strong>the cat, enters the room.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dad (to Figaro): <\/em>Come here, you fat, furry thing. I&#8217;m gonna eat you up.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nate: <\/em>Dad, please stop talking about eating the cat. I don&#8217;t like talking about killing animals, and eating means killing, you know.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dad: <\/em>Hm. How do you feel about having eaten turkey for dinner this evening?<\/p>\n<p><em>Nate: <\/em>Oh, I don&#8217;t mind that. I just don&#8217;t like hurting cute, furry animals.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dad: <\/em>What about an ugly furry animal?<\/p>\n<p><em>Nate: <\/em>You mean like a bullfrog\u2026 with hair? <em>(pause) <\/em>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d eat that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scene: Nate&#8217;s bedroom, around bedtime. Nate is sitting on the floor, putting on his pajamas. Dad is reclining on the bed. Figaro, the cat, enters the room. Dad (to Figaro): Come here, you fat, furry thing. I&#8217;m gonna eat you up. Nate: Dad, please stop talking about eating the cat. I don&#8217;t like talking about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/vegetarian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vegetarian Mumbo Jumbo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nate","category-that-darn-cat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}