{"id":16473,"date":"2013-01-26T22:51:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T22:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2013\/01\/26\/paul-mccartney-used-to-think-vegetarians-were-wimps\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T22:51:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T22:51:24","slug":"paul-mccartney-used-to-think-vegetarians-were-wimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2013\/01\/26\/paul-mccartney-used-to-think-vegetarians-were-wimps\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney used to think vegetarians were wimps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/DWSKSXFVSIGEMWBFTEDE.jpg>Sir Paul McCartney thought vegetarians were softies when he was a kid.<br \/>\n\u201cGrowing up in Liverpool, I\u2019d have seen a vegetarian as a wimp. We could be a prejudiced bunch,\u201d the Daily Star quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Beatle, who hasn\u2019t eaten meat for 40 years, made the confession while discussing his commitment to vegetarianism and his involvement in the new ad campaign promoting his late wife Linda\u2019s line of chilled, meat-free meals.<\/p>\n<p>He then notes that he thinks it\u2019s great that there\u2019s \u201cdefinitely now an overall greater acceptance of being vegetarian,\u201d while pointing out that restaurants and supermarkets are offering more meat-free choices.<\/p>\n<p>\nMcCartney goes on to praise his late wife for playing a \u201cmassive part\u201d in promoting the vegetarian lifestyle through her Linda McCartney Foods line, which he says \u201ckick-started a revolution of choice in the food industry.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Paul McCartney thought vegetarians were softies when he was a kid. \u201cGrowing up in Liverpool, I\u2019d have seen a vegetarian as a wimp. We could be a prejudiced bunch,\u201d the Daily Star quoted him as saying. The ex-Beatle, who hasn\u2019t eaten meat for 40 years, made the confession while discussing his commitment to vegetarianism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}