{"id":23698,"date":"2024-10-04T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=23698"},"modified":"2024-09-18T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:00:10","slug":"the-gentle-giant-a-vrg-video-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2024\/10\/04\/the-gentle-giant-a-vrg-video-contest-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gentle Giant \u2013 A VRG Video Contest Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Gentle-Giant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/The-Gentle-Giant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lilly from New Jersey said: I am a recent high school graduate, and when I first saw this video scholarship contest, I immediately became excited. Throughout my entire life, I have loved to make videos and short films. Incidentally, I have also been vegetarian for years and try to spread the plant-based message as much as possible. To have the opportunity to potentially influence others with a video is a dream come true! I chose to highlight a local small business that is the only 100% vegan restaurant in the county I live in. The message I am portraying with the video is that vegan-run business and vegan communities are more than just the diet. It is the culture, the compassion for animals, the caring for other people. Please enjoy my video, &#8220;taking care of community, the vegan way ~ The Gentle Giant Cafe&#8221;. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOaKy1uvB48\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KOaKy1uvB48<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilly from New Jersey said: I am a recent high school graduate, and when I first saw this video scholarship contest, I immediately became excited. Throughout my entire life, I have loved to make videos and short films. Incidentally, I have also been vegetarian for years and try to spread the plant-based message as much [&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-23698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698","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=23698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23700,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23698\/revisions\/23700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}