{"id":2039,"date":"2016-03-29T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2016-03-29T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T17:05:10","slug":"truth-thanks-phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2016\/truth-thanks-phil\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth (thanks Phil)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZlTBC91L-x0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ll always hold Peta partially responsible for the judgement against and lack of converts to Veganism.  There will always be those among us who have none of the bravery or intellect to divert from their parents&#8217; choices, no matter what they were.  But there is a real segment of the human race that is rational and reasonable and intelligent and open to this kind of information.  Peta&#8217;s methodical antagonism of everyone who wasn&#8217;t already vegan, over the course of decades, has done more harm to the growth of Veganism in this segment than anything else, imho.  But&#8230; truth will out.  So here we go into the future, with eternal optimism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll always hold Peta partially responsible for the judgement against and lack of converts to Veganism. There will always be those among us who have none of the bravery or intellect to divert from their parents&#8217; choices, no matter what they were. But there is a real segment of the human race that is rational &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2016\/truth-thanks-phil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Truth (thanks Phil)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-wT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":178,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/95-an-inconvenient-truth\/","url_meta":{"origin":2039,"position":0},"title":"9.5 An Inconvenient Truth","author":"Administrator","date":"July 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Doesn't matter who you are, see this. 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