{"id":2002,"date":"2008-08-01T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2008-08-01T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T17:19:00","slug":"eat-local-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"Eat local challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep asking myself how I would live my life if I lived it according to my beliefs instead of keeping my beliefs fairly isolated from my actions.  In the spirit of baby steps in the correct direction, I present my modified version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/urbanhennery.com\/dark-days-challenge\">Dark Days Local Eating Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each participant can set their own rules, but generally they are:<\/p>\n<p>1. We have to cook one meal a week with at least 90% local ingredients.  For the benefit of my detail oriented friends (<a href=\"http:\/\/jrtom.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jrtom<\/a>) &#8220;90%&#8221; in this context means &#8220;predominantly&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>2. We have to write about it &#8211; the triumphs and the challenges<\/p>\n<p>3. Local means a 200 mile radius for raw ingredients. For processed foods the company must be within 200 miles and committed to local sources.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to keep this up through the end of the year, and then re-evaluate on New Year\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<p>The challenge starts now.  All are welcome to play, but you gotta write about it.<\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, if the legends are true, my parents fed themselves (and little baby me!) for an entire winter using preserves from their very own garden, trade with the neighbors, and a half cow in a freezer up the street.  That would be, like, 28 times harder than what I&#8217;m proposing here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep asking myself how I would live my life if I lived it according to my beliefs instead of keeping my beliefs fairly isolated from my actions. In the spirit of baby steps in the correct direction, I present my modified version of the Dark Days Local Eating Challenge<\/p>\n<p>Each participant can set their <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=2002\">Eat local challenge<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}