{"id":13486,"date":"2019-04-29T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2019-04-18T10:58:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:58:22","slug":"madge-darneille","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/madge-darneille\/","title":{"rendered":"MADGE DARNEILLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Madge-Darneille.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13487\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a note from the Vegetarian Society of DC. Madge Darneille was also a Vegetarian Resource Group life member.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VSDC is saddened by the loss of Madge Darneille who died on April 5, 2019, just shy of her 99th birthday. A vegetarian since the age of four, Madge has been called the First Lady of Vegetarianism in North America and served off-and-on as president of VSDC for 22 years, most recently in 1996. VSDC         history has been referred to as \u201cbefore Madge\u201d and \u201cafter Madge.\u201d<br><br>She was also a founder and board member of the North American         Vegetarian Society (NAVS) and the Vegetarian Union of North America (VUNA), and Assistant Secretary of the International Vegetarian Union (IVU). She co-founded World Vegetarian Day in the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are grateful to Madge for her many years of pioneering leadership and inspiration, and we send our deepest sympathy to her family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a note from the Vegetarian Society of DC. Madge Darneille was also a Vegetarian Resource Group life member.\u00a0 VSDC is saddened by the loss of Madge Darneille who died on April 5, 2019, just shy of her 99th birthday. A vegetarian since the age of four, Madge has been called the First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13488,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}