{"id":302,"date":"2007-09-10T03:13:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T07:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=302"},"modified":"2007-09-10T03:13:26","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T07:13:26","slug":"302","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/302\/","title":{"rendered":"Health in Pregnancy Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Pregnant women will get about \u00a3200 paid into their bank account to spend on healthy food under a government initiative, the BBC has learned.<br \/>\nFrom April 2009, expectant mothers in England would receive a one-off payment from their 29th week of pregnancy to encourage them to eat well. <\/p>\n<p>Health secretary Alan Johnson will announce the &#8220;Health in Pregnancy Grant&#8221; on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Grumpy Vegan recognizes the good intentions of Britain&#8217;s Labour government in encouraging pregnant women to eat well with the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/6984122.stm\">Health in Pregnancy Grant<\/a> but isn&#8217;t this taking the Nanny State too far? <\/p>\n<p>How&#8217;s the government going to ensure that the money is used on healthy food? Moreover, isn&#8217;t this shutting the gate after the horse has bolted? What about a government grant to give pubescent children free birth control until their 21? Now, that&#8217;s what I call a grant to encourage healthy living.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnant women will get about \u00a3200 paid into their bank account to spend on healthy food under a government initiative, the BBC has learned. From April 2009, expectant mothers in England would receive a one-off payment from their 29th week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/10\/302\/\">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":[6,9],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moaning","category-thinking","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}