{"id":652,"date":"2008-04-04T05:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=652"},"modified":"2008-04-04T05:35:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T09:35:16","slug":"652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/652\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the crisis of feeding the world&#8217;s population grows, breeding of animals for human consumption becomes less acceptable &#8212; out of compassion for the suffering of animals and the awareness that it is a grossly inefficient use of water and grain. A new relationship with the animal kingdom is part of our changing perception of the Earth. Animals are part of us, and part of our practice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Allan Hunt Badiner, editor, <em>Dharma Gaia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the crisis of feeding the world&#8217;s population grows, breeding of animals for human consumption becomes less acceptable &#8212; out of compassion for the suffering of animals and the awareness that it is a grossly inefficient use of water and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/04\/652\/\">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-652","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\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}