{"id":394,"date":"2009-12-19T14:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T13:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=394"},"modified":"2010-02-20T07:15:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T06:15:42","slug":"leather-and-farts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Leather seats and farting cows!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just come across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bususers.org\/index.html\">Bus Users UK <\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bususers.org\/newsletters\/bususers_36.pdf\">Autumn edition<\/a> of their quarterly newsletter which includes the following letter.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Drawbacks of leather seats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been a member of Bus Users UK for a number of years &#8230;.. I just wanted to note some problems with the current trend toward considering leather bus seats as an attractive \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcluxury\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 touch on buses. Leather seats are not suitable for vegetarians, including vegans such as myself &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A desire to eat the covering of a bus seat is a new one to me.  Is this some type of fetish behaviour?<\/p>\n<p>The letter continued <em>&#8220;Leather from cows has a significant greenhouse gas impact. As with beef and cow\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s milk, the farming of cows causes a large emission of the powerful greenhouse gas, methane.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So farting&#8217;s a problem as well :-(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just come across Bus Users UK and the Autumn edition of their quarterly newsletter which includes the following letter. Drawbacks of leather seats I have been a member of Bus Users UK for a number of years &#8230;.. I just wanted to note some problems with the current trend toward considering leather bus seats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/loades.net\/megabusblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}