{"id":140,"date":"2022-05-26T15:58:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T15:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/?p=140"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:09:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:09:35","slug":"camel-meat-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/postcards\/camel-meat-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Camel Meat in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>This camel head hanging from a wall in the food section of the <em>medina<\/em> (old city) in Fes, Morocco caught my eye. How could it not?  I don&#8217;t eat camel. In fact, I would never eat camel.  Yet right across the way is the Cafe Clock which serves camel burgers (and, fortunately for me, other yummy things).<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For that matter, where I live in NY our meat bears little resemblance to actual animals.  Here one can watch as an animal is cut up or choose a live chicken to be slaughtered.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It occurs to me that dinner is exactly the same around the world and also completely different.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr style=\"margin-top:1em;width:80%;margin:auto;color:#488;\">\r\n<div style=\"text-size:120%;width:60%;margin:auto;text-align:center;\"><i>Related:  <\/i>Thinking of visiting? Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/shuttrquest.com\/morocco\/complete-guide-visiting-morocco-welcome-jewel-north-africa\/\"><b>great introduction to Morocco<\/b><\/a>.<\/div>\r\n<hr style=\"width:80%;margin:auto;color:#488;margin-bottom:1em;\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This camel head hanging from a wall in the food section of the medina (old city) in Fes, Morocco caught my eye. How could it not? I don&#8217;t eat camel. In fact, I would never eat camel. Yet right across the way is the Cafe Clock which serves camel burgers (and, fortunately for me, other&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31,13,29,28,30,27],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-postcards","tag-camel-meat","tag-cultures","tag-fes","tag-fez","tag-medina","tag-morocco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelmhoffman.com\/Human-Stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}