{"id":33762,"date":"2011-06-12T20:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T04:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=33762"},"modified":"2011-06-12T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T04:09:24","slug":"i-dont-drink-or-smoke-or-lend-my-bum-to-other-blokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=33762","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Drink Or Smoke Or Lend My Bum To Other Blokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sentientdevelopments.com\/2011\/06\/so-i-started-eating-meat-again.html\">I just read a great essay against vegetarianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a life-long vegetarian. Not from conviction but from habit. It increasingly looks to me like vegetarianism is not healthy. <\/p>\n<p>There are some things I was raised with that I just don&#8217;t want to let go. For instance, I don&#8217;t drink or smoke or lend my bum to other blokes. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the result of my <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church\">Seventh-Day Adventist heritage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If I was stuck in a place where the only available food was meat, I&#8217;d rather starve for several days than eat it. I fear my gag reflex would kick in if I were to ever try meat.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll drink a mouthful or two of wine for kiddush but that&#8217;s about it. I don&#8217;t like the taste of alcohol. And I don&#8217;t like the behavior of most people after they&#8217;ve had a couple of drinks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read a great essay against vegetarianism. I&#8217;m a life-long vegetarian. Not from conviction but from habit. It increasingly looks to me like vegetarianism is not healthy. There are some things I was raised with that I just don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=33762\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,21],"tags":[16520,26777,1078,26778,23319],"class_list":["post-33762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventist","category-personal","tag-blokes","tag-gag-reflex","tag-kiddush","tag-taste-of-alcohol","tag-vegetarianism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33763,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33762\/revisions\/33763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}