{"id":2130,"date":"2005-02-10T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2005-02-10T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-11T00:52:00","slug":"and-god-said-eat-not-of-the-foulness-that-is-lettuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2005\/02\/10\/20\/52\/and-god-said-eat-not-of-the-foulness-that-is-lettuce\/","title":{"rendered":"And God Said: Eat Not Of The Foulness That Is Lettuce!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a religion I can really get behind: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yazidi\">Yazidi<\/a>, a sub-sect of (mostly Mosul, Iraq-based) Kurds.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yazidi\">According to the Yazidi, Malak Taus is a fallen peacock angel who repented and recreated the world that had been broken. He filled seven jars with his tears and used them to quench the fire in Hell &#8230; The Yazidi holy books are the Book of Revelation and the Black Book. The latter forbids eating of lettuce or butter beans and wearing of dark blue.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._P._Lovecraft\">HP Lovecraft<\/a> even namechecked them in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;q=%22The+Horror+At+Red+Hook%22\">The Horror At Red Hook<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a religion I can really get behind: Yazidi, a sub-sect of (mostly Mosul, Iraq-based) Kurds. According to the Yazidi, Malak Taus is a fallen peacock angel who repented and recreated the world that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}