{"id":889,"date":"2008-09-19T10:20:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2008-09-19T10:20:25","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:20:25","slug":"889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/889\/","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Alaskan Moose"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>SARAH PALIN, the Alaska governor and Republican nominee for vice president, lists moose stew and moose burgers among her favorite foods. Republican leaders point to her ability to field dress a moose as a qualification for office. <\/p>\n<p>Just like that, moose meat has become a political issue and a national punch line.<\/p>\n<p>Here in Alaska, residents are less annoyed than one might imagine at having a freezer staple treated as just another piece of Arctic kitsch. For one thing, many Alaskans don&#8217;t care what bloggers or late-night television joke writers think. <\/p>\n<p>Alaskans themselves enjoy making fun of their relationship with moose. This is a state where people varnish pieces of moose excrement and sell them as earrings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/17\/dining\/17moose.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;sq=animal&#038;st=nyt&#038;scp=18\"><em>A Political Punch Line Is Dinner in Alaska<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARAH PALIN, the Alaska governor and Republican nominee for vice president, lists moose stew and moose burgers among her favorite foods. Republican leaders point to her ability to field dress a moose as a qualification for office. Just like that, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/889\/\">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":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","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=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}