{"id":1918,"date":"2006-12-20T07:16:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T15:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_cool_thing_is_were_going_to_be_using_live_animals_hopefully_they_wont_be_total_animals.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:13:22","slug":"the_cool_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/the_cool_thing.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cool Thing Is We&#8217;re Going To Be Using Live Animals . . . Hopefully They Won&#8217;t Be Total Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The war on Christmas <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1166535004310340.xml&#038;coll=1\">claims another victim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yet another Nativity display has met its end, but this time it had nothing to do with political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>The problem: A sheep and a goat in one pen.<\/p>\n<p>Since Dec. 1, the Greenside Up garden center at 5050 Hylan Blvd. in Annadale has featured a hay-filled pen full of llamas, goats, sheep, emus, ponies and more, which has acted as a mini-petting-zoo reminiscent of the time of the birth of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>The animals are mostly passive, mildly poking at their wooden fence in hopes of fresh corn.<\/p>\n<p>That changed on Sunday, when, as best as workers can tell, the young billy goat rammed the 8-year-old sheep.<\/p>\n<p>Though the workers say horseplay occasionally happens in the pen, owner Dennis Hansen of Greenside Up said the sheep also took a few hard knocks from the llama.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Workers separated the sheep from the rest of the animals, though her friend, an emu, stayed with her and yesterday nuzzled her and fussed over her.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday morning, a customer noticed that the sheep was lying on its side, and alerted Hansen, as well as the city Center for Animal Care and Control and the ASPCA.<\/p>\n<p>When they arrived, the sheep was on her side taking shallow breaths, apparently suffering internal bleeding.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And with that, the nativity scene was promptly shut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war on Christmas claims another victim: Yet another Nativity display has met its end, but this time it had nothing to do with political correctness. The problem: A sheep and a goat in one pen. Since Dec. 1, the Greenside Up garden center at 5050 Hylan Blvd. in Annadale has featured a hay-filled pen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918","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=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}