{"id":1321,"date":"2009-11-25T01:33:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2009-11-25T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:33:56","slug":"1321","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/1321\/","title":{"rendered":"You Would Think By Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would think by now that with all the blood we&#8217;ve spilt in our superstitious religious rites; in our political struggles for power and control; in animal research laboratories for our health and safety; in wars to determine our national boundaries; in slaughterhouses to feed us; in bullrings to entertain us; and in countless other places and times &#8211; we&#8217;d live in a world in which no one is poor, suffering or enslaved. It&#8217;s time to expose and reject all belief systems which are the expense of someone else. It&#8217;s time to discover those which reveal truths we can all believe in; which foster compassion to inspire us to act altruistically for others; which reveal non-violence as a way forward to fundamentally address the challenges we all face; and imbibe us with a sense of interbeing, the interrelatedness of all. Until then, things will not change. And yet more blood of the innocent will be needlessly spilt by the naive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would think by now that with all the blood we&#8217;ve spilt in our superstitious religious rites; in our political struggles for power and control; in animal research laboratories for our health and safety; in wars to determine our national &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/1321\/\">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":[6],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","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=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}