{"id":68,"date":"2006-09-23T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2006-09-23T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T20:05:42","slug":"68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/23\/68\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinach\u2013America\u2019s next killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 109px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spinach.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/spinach.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look out for the evil spinach on your plate!<\/figcaption><\/figure>It seems now that the country is agonizing over whether to feed its spawn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/09\/24\/us\/24spinach.html?ex=1316750400&#038;en=668bd31c78045624&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">spinach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this into perspective, <em>people<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/lcod.htm\">National Center for Health Statistics<\/a> the top three killers in the U.S. are (1) heart disease: 654,092; (2) cancer: 550,270; (3) stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,147.<\/p>\n<p>The Grumpy Vegan doesn&#8217;t mean to belittle the 165 people who got sick and the one person who died from eating spinach but <em>let&#8217;s put this into perspective<\/em> before Rumsfeld orders the U.S. military to nuke the spinach fields. <\/p>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the panic over the meat and dairy products that contributed to the death of 1,354,509 who died from America&#8217;s best three killers?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems now that the country is agonizing over whether to feed its spawn spinach. Let&#8217;s get this into perspective, people According to the National Center for Health Statistics the top three killers in the U.S. are (1) heart disease: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/23\/68\/\">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":[4,6,9],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eating","category-moaning","category-thinking","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","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=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}