{"id":489,"date":"2007-12-27T07:17:43","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T11:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2007-12-27T07:17:43","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T11:17:43","slug":"489","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/489\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodsports Be Damned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 158px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HSAfoxhunt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/HSAfoxhunt.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And the Hunt Saboteurs Association helps us to remember exactly what fox hunting is all about ......<\/figcaption><\/figure>There&#8217;s always a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/hunt\/Story\/0,,2232347,00.html\">huffing and puffing<\/a> about bloodsports on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, when it&#8217;s traditional (yawn) for hunts to parade themselves about the countryside. <\/p>\n<p>Someone from the hunt hoipoloi is always quoted as saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Numbers have been consistently good since the ban came into force a couple of years ago,&#8221; she said. &#8220;A lot of people didn&#8217;t know or care about hunting before but since the Hunting Act has been in the news a lot of people have thought they will go along and see what the fuss is about.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But doesn&#8217;t anyone wonder that perhaps the increase in attendance is due to the fact that hunts aren&#8217;t legally allowed to kill wild animals with a pack of dogs anymore. <em>Maybe that&#8217;s why more people are attending?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s always a lot of huffing and puffing about bloodsports on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, when it&#8217;s traditional (yawn) for hunts to parade themselves about the countryside. Someone from the hunt hoipoloi is always quoted as saying &#8220;Numbers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/27\/489\/\">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":[9],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}