{"id":1122,"date":"2009-05-18T03:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T07:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1122"},"modified":"2009-05-18T03:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T07:09:48","slug":"1122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/1122\/","title":{"rendered":"Charleston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 150px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/edwardcarp2009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/edwardcarp2009.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Today's animal advocates need to discover Edward Carpenter and his revolutionary worldview.<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Grumpy Vegan made his first visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.org.uk\/\">Charleston<\/a>, the Sussex home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and country meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group. Quite simply, it&#8217;s an incredible home and garden where every canvas imaginable lives and breaths this remarkable group of artists and intellectuals. We attended one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.org.uk\/charlestonfestival\/index.php\">Charleston Literary Festival&#8217;s<\/a> presentations. This was a talk given by Tristram Hunt and Sheila Rowbotham and was called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.org.uk\/charlestonfestival\/2009\/09.php\">&#8220;The Good Life.&#8221;<\/a> Hunt spoke about Friedrich Engels and his recent biography about him, <em>The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels<\/em>. Rowbotham discussed her biography of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/nopqrs\/r-titles\/rowbotham_s_edward_carpenter.shtml\">Edward Carpenter<\/a>. The Grumpy Vegan wrote briefly about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/entry.php?id=919\">here<\/a>. It was a fascinating presentation and discussion. The contrast between Engels, the hard-living, fox-hunting revolutionary socialist, on the one hand, and Edward Carpenter, the pro-vegetarian, animal rights advocate, homosexual, ethical socialist, on the other. In response to a question from the floor, Hunt made the very interesting comment that he thought Carpenter&#8217;s ideas had been more achieved than those held by Engels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grumpy Vegan made his first visit to Charleston, the Sussex home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and country meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group. Quite simply, it&#8217;s an incredible home and garden where every canvas imaginable lives and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/1122\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-grumpy-vegan-life","category-thinking","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}