{"id":36268,"date":"2012-12-18T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_vegetarian_roots_the_extraordinary_tale_of_william_cowherd\/"},"modified":"2012-12-18T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T00:16:08","slug":"bbc_vegetarian_roots_the_extraordinary_tale_of_william_cowherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36268","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Vegetarian roots: The extraordinary tale of William Cowherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Beefsteak chapel hardly sounds like a place where vegetarians would be welcome, but more than 200 years ago, this tiny chapel in Salford was the British birthplace of the meat-free diet.<\/p>\n<p>In an even greater twist, the cleric who preached the moral virtues of vegetarianism was the Reverend William Cowherd. His Beefsteak Chapel was the country&#8217;s first vegetarian church.<\/p>\n<p>Cowherd, born almost 250 years ago on Sunday 16 December, demanded his congregation eat a meat free diet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20666581\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beefsteak chapel hardly sounds like a place where vegetarians would be welcome, but more than 200 years ago, this tiny chapel in Salford was the British birthplace of the meat-free diet. In an even greater twist, the cleric who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36268\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,100,199,133,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}