{"id":1729,"date":"2003-08-06T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:41:47","slug":"meatless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/06\/meatless\/","title":{"rendered":"Meatless"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/foodbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Sure, it&#8217;s supposed to increase productivity and keep the burgers from tasting like floor or spit, but there&#8217;s something creepy about this photo.<br><center><IMG data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/mcempty.jpg?resize=410%2C274&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"410\" height=\"274\" style=\"border: 2px solid #555;\" \/><br><small>&#8220;Would you like human contact with that?&#8221;<\/small><\/center><br>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s the new employee-free McDonald&#8217;s, being tested in Littleton CO (the hotbed of McDonald&#8217;s innovations, as any reader of <i>Fast Food Nation<\/i> knows). The franchise that removed animal lard from their fries, chicken from their McNuggets, and taste from their hamburgers has finally gotten rid of those pesky, money-grubbing employees &#8212; all in an effort to streamline production. Kudos! Except they&#8217;ll still have to deal with all those demanding customers. Damned humans.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Next up, to maintain freshness McDonald&#8217;s plans to breed cows right at the restaurants, and constantly irradiate them so that they give birth to fully cooked hamburgers.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Sure, it&#8217;s supposed to increase productivity and keep the burgers from tasting like floor or spit, but there&#8217;s something creepy about this photo.&#8220;Would you like human contact with that?&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s the new employee-free McDonald&#8217;s, being tested in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/08\/06\/meatless\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-links","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}