{"id":2090,"date":"2012-05-06T21:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T21:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2012-08-24T20:20:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T20:20:46","slug":"a-feed-of-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/a-feed-of-convenience","title":{"rendered":"A Feed of Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2119\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2119\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2119 \" title=\"please do not feed in zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding is not a pretty sight to see!\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-content\/uploads\/please-do-not-feed-in-zoo.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeding is not a pretty sight to see!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When hunger emerges, no potential feed should be overlooked nor shift in dietary requirements be beyond consideration in satisfying the urge.<\/p>\n<p>As a fellow feeder, I have been plagued many a time, even daily, with the perplexing uncertainty of what to eat or feed upon. My first thought is what&#8217;s best for my health and the environment, then I look for what is ready, available and accessible, regardless of what my body really needs.<\/p>\n<p>Once the feeding frenzy is over, my mind then has to justify, mostly through denial, the nasty little memos from my body in revolt.<\/p>\n<p>In nature, predators typically seek out the young, the slow or the unaware. I may do the same on more than the physical level with what I regard as a feed opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if being an omnivore with so many FEED choices, has led to a twisted moral sense of entitlement to feed on what I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When hunger emerges, no potential feed should be overlooked nor shift in dietary requirements be beyond consideration in satisfying the urge. As a fellow feeder, I have been plagued many a time, even daily, with the perplexing uncertainty of what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/a-feed-of-convenience\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[86,87,83,21,84,85,88],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts-on-feeding","tag-denial","tag-hunger","tag-moral-sense","tag-predators","tag-revolt","tag-sense-of-entitlement","tag-uncertainty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":48,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carol.bennette.org\/feeders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}