{"id":732,"date":"2018-02-13T14:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=732"},"modified":"2018-02-13T19:05:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:05:41","slug":"how-do-i-tell-my-meat-loving-girlfriend-that-im-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/13\/how-do-i-tell-my-meat-loving-girlfriend-that-im-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I tell my meat loving girlfriend that I&#8217;m vegan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-727\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021318-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-727\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021318-1.jpg\" alt=\"How do I tell my meat loving girlfriend that I'm vegan? [reply] Don't be a vegan.\" width=\"300\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021318-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aw021318-1-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How do I tell my meat loving girlfriend that I&#8217;m vegan? [reply] Don&#8217;t be a vegan.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If being a vegan is an important part of your identity, you must tell her. If you can&#8217;t tell her about an important part of your identity, that&#8217;s a problem, and it has to do with trust, not with veganism. If it&#8217;s not really all that important to you, then telling her shouldn&#8217;t be a problem. Right? (But wait&#8230; don&#8217;t you ever eat together? why wouldn&#8217;t she already know? Have you actively been hiding it?) As to the reply, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a vegan&#8221;: Hm. Well. I&#8217;m a post-it-arian, so far be it from me to criticize or attempt to manage someone else&#8217;s dietary practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If being a vegan is an important part of your identity, you must tell her. If you can&#8217;t tell her about an important part of your identity, that&#8217;s a problem, and it has to do with trust, not with veganism. If it&#8217;s not really all that important to you, then telling her shouldn&#8217;t be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/02\/13\/how-do-i-tell-my-meat-loving-girlfriend-that-im-vegan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do I tell my meat loving girlfriend that I&#8217;m vegan?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","category-relationships","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}