{"id":55,"date":"2010-07-08T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-07-08T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T19:07:00","slug":"vegans-cant-have-barbecues-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/vegans-cant-have-barbecues-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegans can&#8217;t have Barbecues right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I told a few&nbsp;acquaintances&nbsp;about going to a BBQ this week and they looked at me questioningly, and asked nervously&#8230; &#8220;well, uh&#8230;what did you have?&#8221; It felt like they were waiting for me to confess to my post-veganness; that I had ripped into a cow based burger, or some other similar thing. Of course not!<\/p>\n<p>A friend came back to visit Edmonton from the heaven that is Tofino, BC, and we all had a BBQ together. What do you eat if you&#8217;re vegan? Guess what, it&#8217;s nearly the same thing as everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>We had a raw broccoli and cauliflower&nbsp;salad with a raspberry&nbsp;vinaigrette. boiled and roasted cobs of corn. veggie burgers (regular and wheat free), roasted potatoes. Simple and delicious. I&#8217;m looking forward to arranging another barbecue soon, this time in one of Edmonton&#8217;s great big parks.<\/p>\n<p>Now tell me, does this look like an empty plate to you?<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prairiev\/4775041138\/\" title=\"Vegan BBQ by MeShellG, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vegan BBQ\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4077\/4775041138_90341c7e33.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told a few&nbsp;acquaintances&nbsp;about going to a BBQ this week and they looked at me questioningly, and asked nervously&#8230; &#8220;well, uh&#8230;what did you have?&#8221; It felt like they were waiting for me to confess to my post-veganness; that I had ripped into a cow based burger, or some other similar&#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":[6,55,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edmonton","category-summer-2010","category-vegan-bbq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}