{"id":550,"date":"2008-02-02T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2008-02-02T05:27:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T09:27:37","slug":"550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/550\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I stand in honourable company as a modern-day pirate, though I&#8217;ve not shot anyone, burned any ships, looted any cargos or kidnapped anyone. We are also pirates with a sense of humour and a moral code of non-violence. In 30 years of eco-piracy we have never injured a single poacher, though we&#8217;ve sent nine whalers to the bottom. Instead of cannon balls, our guns shoot coconut cream and chocolate pie-filling. We toss stink bombs instead of grenades and we are so non-violent we don&#8217;t even eat meat or fish on our ships. No fish, fowl or mammals have died in the making of our high seas campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>What we do is defend the whales from illegal slaughter by ruthless and merciless killers. If people want to call us pirates for that, we&#8217;re proud to be so. We have whales to save and Japanese ships to attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/australia\/story\/0,,2245331,00.html\">I&#8217;m proud to be a pirate<\/a> by Paul Watson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stand in honourable company as a modern-day pirate, though I&#8217;ve not shot anyone, burned any ships, looted any cargos or kidnapped anyone. We are also pirates with a sense of humour and a moral code of non-violence. In 30 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/02\/550\/\">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":[9],"tags":[33,37],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","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=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}