{"id":1482,"date":"2013-05-10T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2013-05-10T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T16:00:49","slug":"porco-providential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1482","title":{"rendered":"Porco Providential"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am in Orvieto, Italy this week and last night took in, or maybe was taken in by, this pizza fantastica which they called Dracula\u2014mozzarella, Gorgonzola, radishes and salame piquante<\/I>\u2014so I was glad to see in the New York Times such Italian meats<\/a> will be allowed in the US from regions where they have been banned for some time. Although mostly vegetarian, I can’t resist sausage on pizza, so am glad to hear when the pigs are healthy at last.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, the department\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services announced that an in-country assessment had determined that four regions and two provinces in Northern Italy are free of swine vesicular disease, a dangerous communicable ailment that infects pigs, and that \u201cthe importation of pork or pork products from these areas presents a low risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am in Orvieto, Italy this week and last night took in, or maybe was taken in by, this pizza fantastica which they called Dracula\u2014mozzarella, Gorgonzola, radishes and salame piquante\u2014so I was glad to see in the New York Times such Italian meats will be allowed in the US from regions where they have been banned for some time. Although …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}