{"id":588,"date":"2008-02-27T05:24:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T09:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=588"},"modified":"2008-02-27T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T09:24:15","slug":"588","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/588\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/0011.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Resolved<\/em>, That as we may not succeed in exterminating the human race for some time to come, a prize of &#036;500 be offered to the human creatures for the best poem descriptive of our declaration of independence, the same to be handed in to the office of the <em>Evening Post<\/em>, whose editors are hereby authorized to pay over the prize-money; also a prize for the best life of King Penguin, with a full account of his genealogy and early youth, in the style of Mayor Wood&#8217;s; also a prize for the best essay on the Rights of Brutes [&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>These resolutions being put by the Penguin from the throne, were carried unanimously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Animal Declaration of Independence<\/strong> <em>Harper&#8217;s<\/em> January 1857 [edited extract being part 11 in a series of 19] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolved, That as we may not succeed in exterminating the human race for some time to come, a prize of &#036;500 be offered to the human creatures for the best poem descriptive of our declaration of independence, the same to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/588\/\">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],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}