{"id":2427,"date":"2011-11-24T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2012-05-04T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:00:46","slug":"you-dont-have-to-be-the-president-to-pardon-a-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/you-dont-have-to-be-the-president-to-pardon-a-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"You don&#8217;t have to be the President to pardon a turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article on HLNTV.com explains the history behind the tradition of granting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hlntv.com\/article\/2011\/11\/22\/presidents-pardoning-turkeys?hpt=hp_c3\">Presidential pardon<\/a> to a turkey on Thanksgiving. Here at The Vegetarian Resource Group, we think that&#8217;s a fantastic idea! Everyone should do it!  For some ideas on what to eat instead, see our article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/recipes\/vegan_thanksgiving.php\">What Do Vegans And Vegtarians Do For Thanksgiving?<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent article on HLNTV.com explains the history behind the tradition of granting a Presidential pardon to a turkey on Thanksgiving. Here at The Vegetarian Resource Group, we think that&#8217;s a fantastic idea! Everyone should do it! For some ideas on what to eat instead, see our article &#8220;What Do Vegans And Vegtarians Do For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegan-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","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=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3213,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/3213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}