{"id":119,"date":"2012-07-13T22:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T02:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T20:49:44","slug":"vegan-cringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/vegan-cringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan (cringe)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2967 size-medium alignleft\" title=\"320px-Carrots\" src=\"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3417-e1594500553665-300x232.jpeg\" alt=\"Vegan food\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3417-e1594500553665-300x232.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3417-e1594500553665-768x593.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3417-e1594500553665-624x482.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IMG_3417-e1594500553665.jpeg 995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Vee-gan or veg-an. It&#8217;s <em>veg<\/em>-itable and <em>veg<\/em>-itarian. But without the &#8220;i&#8221; it becomes vee-gan with a hard &#8220;g&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how it&#8217;s pronounced though the meaning is clear: no animal products of any kind in the diet. I&#8217;ve read where some folks won&#8217;t even eat honey.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the vegan diet often comes the vegan attitude. The curled lip at meat eaters. The querulous tone, &#8220;What&#8217;s in this?&#8221; The lofty sense of righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>The American diet is tough on a vegan. There&#8217;s cheese in everything. And butter and eggs lurk in every recipe.<\/p>\n<p>I know. I was a vegan for a while. But then I took the Dali Lama&#8217;s caution to heart (this is my paraphrase): If you are served food in love, accept in love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%; margin-left: 0;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vee-gan or veg-an. It&#8217;s veg-itable and veg-itarian. But without the &#8220;i&#8221; it becomes vee-gan with a hard &#8220;g&#8221;. No matter how it&#8217;s pronounced though the meaning is clear: no animal products of any kind in the diet. I&#8217;ve read where some folks won&#8217;t even eat honey. Along with the vegan diet often comes the vegan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2969,"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/2969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.otownmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}