{"id":9160,"date":"2011-05-20T02:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9160"},"modified":"2011-05-20T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T18:08:12","slug":"animal-friendly-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/05\/animal-friendly-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal-Friendly Celebration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9161\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12.jpeg?resize=135%2C135\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12.jpeg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/12.jpeg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Buddhist friend&#8217;s wedding invite read,<br \/>\n&#8216;Dear friend, &#8230; please let us know if you have special dietary restrictions.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The last line was quite sad,<br \/>\nbecause it hinted that it is not going to be a vegetarian meal?<\/p>\n<p>My reply read,<br \/>\n&#8216;Congrats and have fun!<br \/>\nThanks for the invitation; will be at Wutaishan, the holy mountain of Manjusri Bodhisattva.<br \/>\n(Sincerely hope the celebration will be animal-friendly.)<br \/>\nAmituofo<\/p>\n<p>There was no reply, which seemed ominous&#8230;<br \/>\nIt still unnerves me,<br \/>\nthe idea of Buddhists inviting many Buddhists together<br \/>\nto celebrate with a special meal that come from the deaths of animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Buddhist friend&#8217;s wedding invite read, &#8216;Dear friend, &#8230; please let us know if you have special dietary restrictions.&#8217; The&#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-9160","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\/9160","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=9160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}