{"id":643,"date":"2008-02-03T01:08:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T01:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/haitian-mud-cookies\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T01:11:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T01:11:03","slug":"haitian-mud-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/03\/haitian-mud-cookies\/","title":{"rendered":"haitian mud cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With food prices rising, Haiti&#8217;s poorest can&#8217;t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt, salt and vegetable shortening. For some, these have now become regular meals.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/haiti-mud-cookies.jpg' alt='Haitian Mud Cookies 1' \/> <img src='http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/haiti-mud-cookies-2.jpg' alt='Haitian Mud Cookies 2' \/><\/center><br \/>\n<center>AP Photos<\/center><\/p>\n<p>How do we sit here and glut ourselves to death &#8211; have the nerve to moan about the size of our waist and the food that put it there &#8211; in the face of our starving brothers? How does our collective conscience &#8211; never mind consciousness &#8211; survive?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hcJ474CjaJGOUznskl4ZgTHdpxUAD8UFQVR00\"target=_blank>I am so ashamed. <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With food prices rising, Haiti&#8217;s poorest can&#8217;t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt, salt and vegetable shortening. For some, these have now become regular meals. AP Photos How do we sit here and<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}