{"id":688,"date":"2016-04-10T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/?p=688"},"modified":"2016-04-10T09:30:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T20:30:50","slug":"vegetarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2016\/04\/vegetarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So am I in an unusual pocket of humanity or are folks turning more and more to eating a vegetarian diet?<\/p>\n<p>It seems that people I know are one by one turning to a vegetarian diet or from vegetarian to vegan.<\/p>\n<p>People I am meeting and getting on well with tend to be vegetarians.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-691\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-691\" src=\"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_9576-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"glass water and beer  on a table, in the sun\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_9576-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_9576-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_9576-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_9576-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_9576-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awaiting the meal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I have been a vegetarian a couple of times, once for a year, and once for 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>I was for another year a raw foodie, which was mainly vegetarian.<\/p>\n<p>Now though I am an omnivore again.<\/p>\n<p>So what I want to know is, is this vegetarian thing becoming more normal or just a local phenomena?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So am I in an unusual pocket of humanity or are folks turning more and more to eating a vegetarian diet? It seems that people I know are one by one turning to a vegetarian diet or from vegetarian to vegan. People I am meeting and getting on well with tend to be vegetarians. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2016\/04\/vegetarians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vegetarians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,56],"tags":[106,60,110,109,108,107],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-2","category-natural-health","tag-diet","tag-food","tag-food-trends","tag-omnivore","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7q5gi-b6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":802,"url":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2017\/10\/ericas-chicken-pie-vegan\/","url_meta":{"origin":688,"position":0},"title":"Erica&#8217;s &#8220;chicken&#8221; Pie, vegan","author":"Michelle","date":"9 October 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When I stayed with Erica recently she made up this recipe which I am unashamedly stealing. 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The firmness of the tempeh makes this a good replacement for the grilled chicken I used to use in this recipe. 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