{"id":43,"date":"2014-11-11T06:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T06:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2014-11-13T04:03:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T04:03:17","slug":"eat-veggies-not-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Eat Veggies Not Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day our neighbor\u00a0handed me a magnet that reads, \u201cEat Veggies Not Friends.\u201d \u00a0No explanation as to why was needed. \u00a0She knew of the fate of a lamb on our franch. \u00a0You may ask,\u00a0\u201cHow can you eat your own animals?\u201d \u00a0We wanted to teach our children\u00a0that if you couldn&#8217;t\u00a0raise your own animals for meat, then you shouldn\u2019t eat meat. \u00a0&#8220;Don&#8217;t be a hypocrite,&#8221; instructed my husband. \u00a0Our eldest\u00a0daughter expressed\u00a0the tug-of-war happening in her heart, \u201cI love that\u00a0lamb, but\u00a0I <em>really<\/em> love meat.\u201d \u00a0When you raise your own animal to one day be on your table, you learn to fully appreciate the life that is given for the nourishment of your body. \u00a0It gives you another\u00a0reason for finishing what\u2019s on your plate &#8211; if the\u00a0reality\u00a0of so many malnourished children\u00a0in developing countries isn&#8217;t\u00a0enough motivation. \u00a0Our children do not whine about how they are too full to finish their lamb dinner but\u00a0still have room for dessert. \u00a0Not a single crumb is left as we remember how we poured time and love into\u00a0that lamb\u00a0for the past\u00a0year. \u00a0It\u00a0is definitely\u00a0easier on your spirit to mindlessly roll through the supermarket aisles and fill up your cart with chuck roasts, chicken breasts, and pork tenderloins. \u00a0But, then you don&#8217;t know who to thank. \u00a0We can thank Augustus. \u00a0Though I must admit, it isn&#8217;t easy. \u00a0I don\u2019t want to be a hypocrite. \u00a0I think I may soon need\u00a0some recommendations for\u00a0vegetarian cookbooks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3529.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-89\" src=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3529-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3529\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3529-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3529-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franchlife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/IMG_3529-676x507.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day our neighbor\u00a0handed me a magnet that reads, \u201cEat Veggies Not Friends.\u201d \u00a0No explanation as to why was needed. \u00a0She knew of the fate of a lamb on our franch. \u00a0You may ask,\u00a0\u201cHow can you eat your own animals?\u201d \u00a0We wanted to teach our children\u00a0that if you couldn&#8217;t\u00a0raise your own animals for meat, then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-change-happens","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franchlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}