{"id":479,"date":"2007-12-12T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2007-12-12T21:24:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T01:24:45","slug":"479","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/479\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI Op Ed on Vick in Atlanta Journal-Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ASI&#8217;s Executive Director Ken Shapiro op ed, &#8220;Vick needs counseling, too: It&#8217;ll help him break the cycle of violence,&#8221; published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/opinion\/content\/opinion\/stories\/2007\/12\/11\/vicked_1212.html\"><em>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Vick&#8217;s prison sentence is an unfortunate but necessary consequence of engaging in illegal animal cruelty. The judge&#8217;s order includes jail, fines, probation and drug treatment, but failed to include an important element that would hasten Vick&#8217;s personal and professional redemption: psychological counseling to understand why Vick ever considered fighting and killing dogs acceptable in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>As a psychologist, I have studied animal abuse for 15 years and have seen firsthand how a cycle of violence victimizes animals and people alike, including the abusers themselves. This &#8220;violence link&#8221; forms a behavior chain stronger and more dangerous than any pit bull.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASI&#8217;s Executive Director Ken Shapiro op ed, &#8220;Vick needs counseling, too: It&#8217;ll help him break the cycle of violence,&#8221; published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Michael Vick&#8217;s prison sentence is an unfortunate but necessary consequence of engaging in illegal animal cruelty. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/479\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,28],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-companion-animals","tag-nonviolence-ahimsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}