{"id":704,"date":"2008-05-03T02:59:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=704"},"modified":"2008-05-03T02:59:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-03T06:59:25","slug":"704","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/704\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Supports Killing Wild Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As so often happens in politics, candidates adopt contradictory policies. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/entry.php?id=532\">Here<\/a>, the Grumpy Vegan reported on Obama&#8217;s support for animal rights. Now, Obama is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/issues\/additional\/Obama_FactSheet_Western_Sportsmen.pdf\">supporting the rights and traditions of sportsmen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s to be done? Animal advocates shouldn&#8217;t throw up their hands in horror but roll up their sleeves (apologies for mixed metaphors) and work within the Obama campaign for his election. That&#8217;s what the hunters are doing. And you should, too.<\/p>\n<p>And, if you don&#8217;t like Obama? Doesn&#8217;t matter. Pick the candidate and the party that are closest to you and your beliefs and get stuck in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As so often happens in politics, candidates adopt contradictory policies. Here, the Grumpy Vegan reported on Obama&#8217;s support for animal rights. Now, Obama is supporting the rights and traditions of sportsmen. So, what&#8217;s to be done? Animal advocates shouldn&#8217;t throw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/03\/704\/\">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":[11,37],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-animal-protection-movement","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","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=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}