{"id":2725,"date":"2016-03-18T12:54:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2016-03-18T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T17:57:30","slug":"ben-and-vegentarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=2725","title":{"rendered":"Ben and Vegetarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Ben Franklin, from what I have heard, decided that being a vegetarian was a good idea.  But I have read that when he decided to leave Boston, there was an enlightening incident that occurred while he was in a boat off of Block Island.  The crew was catching and cooking up fish, and for a while old Ben stuck to his guns and did not partake.  But the smell of frying fish evidently finally got to him.  Here is how he recalls it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I balanced some time between principle and inclination until I recollected that when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs.  Then, thought I, if you eat one another I don&#8217;t see why we may not eat you.  So I dined upon cod very heartily and have since continued to eat as other people&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That Ben, what a card he was!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ben_Franklin.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2728\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ben_Franklin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ben_Franklin\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ben_Franklin-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ben_Franklin.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bf_burger.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/bf_burger.jpg\" alt=\"bf_burger\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2730\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Ben Franklin, from what I have heard, decided that being a vegetarian was a good idea. But I have read that when he decided to leave Boston, there was an enlightening incident that occurred while he was in a boat off of Block Island. The crew was catching and cooking up fish, and for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}