{"id":2625,"date":"2011-11-18T17:55:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2011-11-18T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:57:38","slug":"pizza-is-a-vegetable-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/pizza-is-a-vegetable-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza IS a vegetable, of course."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank heavens the US Congress is really taking this whole childhood obesity problem seriously, and will soon be passing some laws to make sure that kids eat more vegetables.\u00c2\u00a0 The solution was embarrassingly easy, and they can&#8217;t believe they didn&#8217;t think of it before now:\u00c2\u00a0 Write a little law, and bam, pizza IS a vegetable!\u00c2\u00a0 Done.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that failing to resist those lobbying corporations that keep you all fat will have no adverse financial consequences later on, like health care.<\/p>\n<p>Good job!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthyschoolscampaign.typepad.com\/healthy_schools_campaign\/2011\/11\/pizza-is-a-vegetable-how-the-spending-bill-in-congress-could-unravel-progress-on-school-nutrition.html\">Healthy Schools Campaign<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5hZy7qHYu4-qXuTWRJm192734Gs6w?docId=6b9a38b3ae5c40979b7be9ba8f1ac176\">Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/11\/18\/congress-pizza-is-a-vegetable.html\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank heavens the US Congress is really taking this whole childhood obesity problem seriously, and will soon be passing some laws to make sure that kids eat more vegetables.\u00c2\u00a0 The solution was embarrassingly easy, and they can&#8217;t believe they didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/18\/pizza-is-a-vegetable-of-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[4],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon","tag-literally-too-stupid-to-make-fun-of"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-Gl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}