{"id":860,"date":"2004-06-16T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=860"},"modified":"2004-06-16T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T17:33:00","slug":"friendsfriends-and-vegan-oopsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"friendsfriends and vegan oopsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely catch up to my friends list at all, so it&#8217;s ever rarer that I bother to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/cheerfulchaotic\/friendsfriends\">my friendsfriends page<\/a>.  Other than some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/jean_prouvaire\/148816.html\">amusing phone chat log commentary<\/a>, I can&#8217;t say I found much to recommend it. =)<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrycoop.com\">The North Country Co-op<\/a> is cool.  I noticed, though that they tended to put the meat and the tofu\/fake meat close together.  I didn&#8217;t think about it when I found the cheaper yogurt drink next to the cultured soy drink, I just assumed it was soy, bought it, and didn&#8217;t check the ingredients until after I&#8217;d made it half way through.  Oops.  I finished it anyway.  It was pretty tasty, and my stomach hasn&#8217;t rebelled.  I&#8217;m not likely to make that same mistake twice, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who criticize my dietary choices on a gustatory basis, it may please you to hear that I now acknowledge that I&#8217;m taking a flavor and texture hit on several different things*.  But my veganism isn&#8217;t a choice I made for reasons of taste.  And the reasons I don&#8217;t eat animal products trump the reasons I would.<\/p>\n<p><font size=-2>* = I thought steak was nasty even when I ate meat regularly, but I had an inexplicable fondness for mcdonald&#8217;s hamburgers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely catch up to my friends list at all, so it&#8217;s ever rarer that I bother to check out my friendsfriends page. Other than some amusing phone chat log commentary, I can&#8217;t say I found much to recommend it. =) Also, The North Country Co-op is cool. I noticed, though that they tended to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;friendsfriends and vegan oopsy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}