{"id":1157,"date":"2009-06-17T01:43:34","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T05:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2009-06-17T01:43:34","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T05:43:34","slug":"1157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/1157\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Dear. The Guardian and Vegetarianism, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But I&#8217;m afraid there is a problem, and that is the inherently tedious nature of evangelical vegetarianism. I say this not because it ruins my lunch of foie gras, but because I am a vegetarian. Huh. Kinda feel like I just outed myself, there.<\/p>\n<p>A life without bacon is the life I have lived. I don&#8217;t think we need to get into any more precise details of what I do and don&#8217;t eat, because unlike certain other journalists I do not believe that boasting about kerrrrazy eating habits will make me sound interesting or admirable. I think it will just make me sound like I think a little too much about food and, most of all, myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/jun\/17\/vegetarians-meat-free-mondays-mccartney\">The worst thing about not eating meat isn&#8217;t the limp salads &#8211; it&#8217;s the other vegetarians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Grumpy Vegan wonders when <em>reportage<\/em> becomes persecution or, cleverly referring to the scandal <em>du jour<\/em>, <strong>trial by <em>The Guardian<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But I&#8217;m afraid there is a problem, and that is the inherently tedious nature of evangelical vegetarianism. I say this not because it ruins my lunch of foie gras, but because I am a vegetarian. Huh. Kinda feel like I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/17\/1157\/\">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":[4,6,9],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","category-moaning","category-thinking","tag-grumpy-vegan-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","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=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}