{"id":725,"date":"2008-05-21T05:30:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-05-21T05:30:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T09:30:26","slug":"725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/725\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day: Britain\u2019s Tory Party Leader in Hunting Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The professional employed by David Cameron&#8217;s fox hunt yesterday became the first person to be charged by police with illegally killing foxes under Labour&#8217;s 2004 law.<\/p>\n<p>The move will shock hunting associations which have flouted the Hunting Act since it came into force in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Heythrop Hunt&#8217;s professional huntsman Julian Barnfield, 44, faces three charges.<\/p>\n<p>Tory leader Mr Cameron has ridden with the hunt, in the heartland of his constituency, at least six times and has in the past described Labour&#8217;s ban as &#8220;bonkers&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/topstories\/2008\/05\/19\/exclusive-david-cameron-s-hunt-first-on-fox-killing-charge-89520-20422505\/\">David Cameron&#8217;s hunt first on fox killing charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The professional employed by David Cameron&#8217;s fox hunt yesterday became the first person to be charged by police with illegally killing foxes under Labour&#8217;s 2004 law. The move will shock hunting associations which have flouted the Hunting Act since it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/725\/\">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":[3,9],"tags":[33,37],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-thinking","tag-thought-for-the-day","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","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=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}