{"id":98,"date":"2005-10-03T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T03:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=98"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:17:09","slug":"suillivores-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Suillivores Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be \u2018pork-eaters\u2019 in Latinate English, a compound of <em>suilla<\/em>, \u2018pork\u2019 and the usual \u2018\u2013vore\u2019 ending from the verb <em>vorare<\/em>, \u2018to devour\u2019.  (The word is stronger than \u2018eat\u2019, and might be taken to imply a Homeric, i.e. Simpsonian, attitude towards bacon, ham, and pork chops.) <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctorweevil.org\/free-piglet.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In response to a U.K. movement to forbid even pictures of pigs, real or fictional, in any location where Muslims might inadvertently see them, <a href=\"http:\/\/relapsedcatholic.blogspot.com\/\">Relapsed Catholic<\/a> has started a \u2018Free Piglet\u2019 campaign, complete with cute logos such as this one.  (Scroll down to the last &#8212; topmost &#8212; post on October 1st, and then scroll back up, stopping at the pig pictures.)<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if RC will appreciate my saying so, but her campaign on behalf of suillivores has some resemblance to the campaign for \u2018gay-friendly\u2019 schools, businesses, and accommodations.  (If <a href=\"http:\/\/gaypatriot.org\/\">GayPatriot<\/a> joins the Free Piglet campaign, he can offer two abominations for the price of one.)  Just as one can be gay-friendly without being gay, it ought to be possible for a devout Muslim, Jew, or vegetarian to be \u2018porkeater-friendly\u2019 in a totally nonparticipatory way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be \u2018pork-eaters\u2019 in Latinate English, a compound of suilla, \u2018pork\u2019 and the usual \u2018\u2013vore\u2019 ending from the verb vorare, \u2018to devour\u2019. (The word is stronger than \u2018eat\u2019, and might be taken to imply a Homeric, i.e. Simpsonian, attitude towards bacon, ham, and pork chops.) In response to a U.K. movement to forbid even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}