{"id":47,"date":"2008-03-19T05:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/19\/vegitarians-were-not-meant-to-be\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T05:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T05:49:00","slug":"vegitarians-were-not-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/vegitarians-were-not-meant-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegitarians were not Meant to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Human beings, it seems, learn about salt (and become addicted to it) at a very precise moment in their history: when they cease being almost exclusively carnivorous and learn to eat vegetables in quantities usually available only when they grow them themselves. When people begin not only to eat a lot of vegetables, but to reduce the salt content in their food by boiling it&#8211;a cooking method which presupposes the ability to make metal pots that can be set directly over a fire&#8211;hen salt becomes more desirable still. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Margaret Visser, <em>Much Depends on Dinner &#8211; the extraordinary history and mythology, allure and obsessions, perils and taboos of an ordinary meal, <\/em>65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human beings, it seems, learn about salt (and become addicted to it) at a very precise moment in their history: when they cease being almost exclusively carnivorous and learn to eat vegetables in quantities usually available only when they grow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/vegitarians-were-not-meant-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}