{"id":1707,"date":"2013-04-07T14:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2013-04-07T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T18:35:30","slug":"toronto-animal-book-club-first-meeting-sunday-april-21st-4pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/toronto-animal-book-club-first-meeting-sunday-april-21st-4pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Animal Book Club &#8211; First Meeting &#8211; Sunday, April 21st 4pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After being inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourhenhouse.org\/2013\/03\/new-online-animal-book-club-challenges-readers-to-consider-animal-rights\/\">a recent post on Our Hen House<\/a>, a group of us has decided to start a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/hey-toronto-how-about-a-veganimal-rights-book-club\/\">Veg\/Animal Book Club<\/a>\u00a0in Toronto, our first meeting is April 21st at 4pm. Location to be announced once I get final numbers. To find out more information feel free to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/about-me\/\">contact me directly<\/a>, on twitter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mdgee\">@mdgee<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/355075024600964\/\">join our facebook group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve opted to start with\u00a0T<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caroljadams.com\/spom.html\">he Sexual Politics of Meat<\/a> by Carol J Adams &#8211; a book that has inspired a lot of people (as indicated by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lanternbooks.com\/detail.html?id=9781590564196\">Defiant Daughters book<\/a> released recently) and inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/bitchmagazine.org\/post\/the-biotic-woman-talking-about-transphobia-and-ecofeminism-with-ida-hammer\">a lot of criticism as well<\/a>\/ (and more from an <a href=\"http:\/\/animalvoices.ca\/\">Animal Voices<\/a> interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/video\/msr\/yap_int.html\">transcript<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking to create a positive, respectful space to share, read, learn, and talk about animal friendly literature and non-fiction. You can learn more about goals and see a list of potential future books\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/hey-toronto-how-about-a-veganimal-rights-book-club\/\">here<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Hope to see you at our first meeting!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being inspired by a recent post on Our Hen House, a group of us has decided to start a\u00a0Veg\/Animal Book Club\u00a0in Toronto, our first meeting is April 21st at 4pm. Location to be announced once I get final numbers. To find out more information feel free to\u00a0contact me directly,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,356],"tags":[573,701,1392],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-club","category-toronto-2","tag-animal-rights","tag-book-club-2","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}