{"id":4103,"date":"2009-11-02T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2009-11-02T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T09:31:03","slug":"happy-belated-world-vegan-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/11\/happy-belated-world-vegan-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Belated World Vegan Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4104\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/11.jpg?resize=146%2C151\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<strong>What?<\/strong> World Vegan Day is an opportunity for vegans and their friends to celebrate and promote veganism<br \/>\n<strong>When?<\/strong> World Vegan Day is every year on November 1st (since 1994)<br \/>\n<strong>Why?<\/strong> The world&#8217;s first Vegan Society was born on November 1st 1944 &#8211; started by Donald Watson and friends.<br \/>\n<strong>Where?<\/strong> World Vegan Day is celebrated internationally all over the world.<br \/>\n<strong>How?<\/strong> November 1st is celebrated in many different ways,<br \/>\nfrom a simple birthday party to a full vegan festival<br \/>\nwith exhibitions of vegan food and products, talks on nutrition and cooking demonstrations.&#8217;<br \/>\n(See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldveganday.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.worldveganday.org.uk<\/a> for more details)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long live veganism&#8230; for the long lives of all beings!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read up on the inspiring interview with Donald Watson (1910-2005) &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodsforlife.org.uk\/people\/Donald-Watson-Vegan\/Donald-Watson.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.foodsforlife.org.uk\/people\/Donald-Watson-Vegan\/Donald-Watson.html<\/a><br \/>\nwho formed the word &#8216;vegan&#8217; from the begining and end of the word &#8216;vegetarian&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Donald Watson reminds me of how powerful words can be&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA:\u00a0I&#8217;m vegan.<br \/>\nB: What&#8217;s that?<br \/>\nA: Let me share&#8230;&#8230;. [and an ideal of universal kindness is thus shared :-]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Terrible demons are easier subdued when named.<br \/>\nOur better angels are easier nurtured when called upon too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>May more of the world be vegans every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;What? World Vegan Day is an opportunity for vegans and their friends to celebrate and promote veganism When? World Vegan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}