{"id":21391,"date":"2023-06-19T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=21391"},"modified":"2023-05-26T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T14:24:16","slug":"interaction-with-meat-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/interaction-with-meat-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERACTION WITH MEAT EATERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hank-J.-Rothgerber-PhD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Hank-J.-Rothgerber-PhD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">by Hank J. Rothgerber, PhD<\/p>\n<p>I have several blog postings that I think readers would find of interest.\u00a0The first is posted on my webpage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chances are my vegetarian readers have been on the wrong side of a meat eater before. You may have been minding your own business, been on good behavior, and not looking for a fight, but there you were confronted by a meat eater with an edge. I remember getting ambushed by my wife\u2019s family years ago over not eating meat although time has made me recall the incident as a mere annoyance. Sometimes we are teased, sometimes the butt of jokes, sometimes questioned in what seems like a playful manner, sometimes the subject of hushed whispers or unwanted stares&#8230; No matter how carefully you try to manage such situations, allow me to share with you a dirty secret: <em>Their reactions are not about you; they are about them<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For Dr. Rothgerber&#8217;s complete posting see: <a href=\"https:\/\/hankrothgerber.com\/encounters-with-meat-eaters\">https:\/\/hankrothgerber.com\/encounters-with-meat-eaters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Hank J. Rothgerber, PhD I have several blog postings that I think readers would find of interest.\u00a0The first is posted on my webpage. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Chances are my vegetarian readers have been on the wrong side of a meat eater before. You may have been minding your own business, been on good behavior, and not [&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-21391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391","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=21391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21393,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21391\/revisions\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}