{"id":10211,"date":"2011-10-03T22:06:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10211"},"modified":"2011-10-03T22:06:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:06:03","slug":"what-animals-for-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/10\/what-animals-for-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"What Animals for Dinner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10212\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/17.jpg?resize=104%2C112\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/17.jpg?w=216&amp;ssl=1 216w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/17.jpg?resize=89%2C96&amp;ssl=1 89w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I see an old friend, who became Buddhist before I did, walking through a food court. I thought he was looking for a seat, but he stopped before a meat noodle stall, looked at the menu, and made an order. Turned out that he was looking for what animal(s) to eat for dinner, bypassing the obvious vegetarian stall. A friend once remarked that it is much easier to choose what to eat as a vegetarian, instead of being confused by so many kinds of animal flesh &#8216;available&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit I was somewhat disappointed, that after all these years, he still eats animals. But I shouldn&#8217;t be so judgemental. All this means is that in the department of compassion to many kinds of &#8216;edible&#8217; animals, he hasn&#8217;t improved much yet? Still, it never ceases to amaze me, when Buddhists who know they are supposed to practise ever-increasing compassion to all sentient beings, are able to, continually, day after day, muse over what animals they should eat, at least three times a day, for three meals. How about entertaining more thoughts of what animals to stop eating?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see an old friend, who became Buddhist before I did, walking through a food court. I thought he was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[57,156],"class_list":["post-10211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-compassion","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}