{"id":598,"date":"2014-04-10T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/?p=598"},"modified":"2014-04-10T11:13:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:13:25","slug":"the-token-vegetarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/the-token-vegetarian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Token Vegetarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ended <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/droopie-of-the-month-april-edition\/\">last week&#8217;s blog<\/a><\/span><\/strong> with a ridiculous picture of a baby bird in a bun. That inspired me to come right out of the spinach-lined closet and just say it. Some of you may already know this, \u00a0but\u00a0<em>I don&#8217;t eat meat.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_605\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-605\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/molly-face1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-605\" alt=\"this is my no meat face\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/molly-face1.jpg?resize=300%2C267&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/molly-face1.jpg?resize=300%2C267&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/molly-face1.jpg?w=449&amp;ssl=1 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-605\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">this is my no meat face<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><\/em><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">That&#8217;s right kids. I&#8217;m a vegetarian. I have been one since 2000, but before that I tried (unsuccessfully) several times since I was about 15. I was unsuccessful because I didn&#8217;t know that I needed to take supplements so I wouldn&#8217;t become anemic. Because guess what? <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Humans evolved to eat meat<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yep, I know we are omnivores. Except my boyfriend, he&#8217;s a meat-aholic.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/meat-tea-cup3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-601\" alt=\"time for a cup of NOPE\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/meat-tea-cup3.jpg?resize=300%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/meat-tea-cup3.jpg?resize=300%2C218&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/meat-tea-cup3.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">time for a cup of NOPE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a in-your-face-telling-you-how-wrong-you-are-vegetarian. I honestly give two facks if you want to stuff your pie hole with dead critters. That&#8217;s *your* business. I also play well with others, as such, I have become the vegetarian you can gibe on facebook and post meaty-meaty pictures on my timeline because <em>I honestly don&#8217;t care.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh I feign shock. And horror. But I know it&#8217;s all in good fun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_603\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-603\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/yikes.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-603\" alt=\"you was trollin!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/yikes.jpg?resize=239%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/yikes.jpg?resize=239%2C300&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/yikes.jpg?w=440&amp;ssl=1 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">you was trollin!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On a related note, don&#8217;t google &#8216;weird cow pictures&#8217;. Just don&#8217;t. Unless you want to see a cow ass-peeing into a glass, because man. You can&#8217;t unsee that stuff.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cow-statue.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-606\" alt=\"I'm tellin ya just say no\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cow-statue.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cow-statue.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/cow-statue.jpg?w=580&amp;ssl=1 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m tellin ya, just say no<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ended last week&#8217;s blog with a ridiculous picture of a baby bird in a bun. That inspired me to come right out of the spinach-lined closet and just say it. Some of you may already know this, \u00a0but\u00a0I don&#8217;t eat meat. That&#8217;s right kids. I&#8217;m a vegetarian. I have been one since 2000, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/go-bacon.jpg?fit=477%2C649&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-dregs.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}