{"id":1157,"date":"2006-06-12T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/there_oughta_be_a_law-2.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:08:04","slug":"there_oughta_be_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/there_oughta_be_1.html","title":{"rendered":"There Oughta Be A Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your City Council bill out of my circus, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/bill_would_bar_circus_animals_regionalnews_carl_campanile.htm\">busybody<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The Greatest Show on Earth&#8221; would be barred from showcasing elephants, zebras and big cats in the Big Apple under legislation proposed by a City Council member.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just wrong,&#8221; said Manhattan Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, who charges the exotic circus animals are abused and belong in the wild, not in captivity for entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez&#8217;s bill &#8212; should it become law &#8212; would dramatically alter Ringling Bros. and Barnum &#038; Bailey&#8217;s annual performances at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not sure people are aware of how badly the animals are treated,&#8221; Mendez said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a long time coming,&#8221; said Sherry Ramsey, New York state director of the Humane Society. &#8220;It&#8217;s time to make ourselves more civilized in the way we entertain ourselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your City Council bill out of my circus, busybody: &#8220;The Greatest Show on Earth&#8221; would be barred from showcasing elephants, zebras and big cats in the Big Apple under legislation proposed by a City Council member. &#8220;It&#8217;s just wrong,&#8221; said Manhattan Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, who charges the exotic circus animals are abused and belong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}