{"id":1227,"date":"2019-03-09T14:04:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2019-03-09T14:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T14:04:48","slug":"oxytocin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/03\/09\/oxytocin\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxytocin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"AppleOriginalContents\">When I was 9 or 10, I used to feel sorry for bus transfers and candy-wrappers. I felt it was wrong to throw them in the garbage as if &#8212; <i>as if they were just objects<\/i>. So my mother kept a drawer in her office in which I could put them. <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1228 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/Lady-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/Lady-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/Lady-768x1028.jpg 768w, http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/Lady-765x1024.jpg 765w, http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2019\/03\/Lady.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>They grew for several years, until I realized what I had really been\u00a0<i>feeling<\/i>. I became a vegetarian when I turned 17, and told my mother she could empty that drawer now. But it was only in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/channels\/event\/perspectives-animal-law-panel-experts-switzerland-canada-and-us-114889\">2012<\/a>, when I was 67, that I became a vegan and realized what I should be <i>doing<\/i> &#8212; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/ca\/blog\/animal-emotions\/201501\/doing-the-right-thing-interview-stevan-harnad\">what I should really have been doing, all along<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"AppleOriginalContents\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"AppleOriginalContents\">Anthropomorphism &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtdigger.org\/2019\/03\/08\/ywp-house-life\/\">natural in children<\/a> &#8212; is what makes humans humane. Easily cultivated, easily ignored, <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/377684\/1\/CarnivoreRevEN1.pdf\">easily snuffed out<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was 9 or 10, I used to feel sorry for bus transfers and candy-wrappers. I felt it was wrong to throw them in the garbage as if &#8212; as if they were just objects. So my mother kept a drawer in her office in which I could put them. They grew for several &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/03\/09\/oxytocin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oxytocin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}