{"id":914,"date":"2008-10-30T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2008-10-30T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:59:43","slug":"914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/914\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Proposition 2 also marks a seminal moment for [Wayne] Pacelle, who, since he became the head of the Humane Society [of the United States] four years ago, has transformed America&#8217;s largest animal-welfare group &#8212; long known as a kindly protector of the nation&#8217;s dogs and cats &#8212; into an organization he likens to a National Rifle Association for the animal movement: a savvy, unapologetically aggressive political player. He has amped up his 10.3-million-member organization by merging with several smaller animal-welfare groups, cherry-picking some of their top leaders and boosting his budget from &#036;75 million to &#036;127 million, making the Humane Society the richest and most powerful animal-welfare group in the country, with its own in-house investigation, litigation and campaign teams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/26\/magazine\/26animal-t.html\">The Barnyard Strategist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposition 2 also marks a seminal moment for [Wayne] Pacelle, who, since he became the head of the Humane Society [of the United States] four years ago, has transformed America&#8217;s largest animal-welfare group &#8212; long known as a kindly protector &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/30\/914\/\">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":[13,33],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-animals-in-agriculture","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}