{"id":8503,"date":"2009-07-10T17:09:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T00:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/bull-draggers-should-be-dragged-instead\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:40:34","slug":"bull-draggers-should-be-dragged-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/bull-draggers-should-be-dragged-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Bull-draggers should be dragged instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Animal cruelty regarding the story of the young bull who was dragged behind a car shocks the rest of us who nurture animals as the valuable beings that they are.<\/p>\n<p>I think it appropriate for the men who dragged the bull to be thusly tied and dragged on the road since it is apparently their stubborness\/ignorance that needs revision.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad that someone caught and jailed the offenders but also imagine the many animals who are mistreated and cruel actions go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>The bull will perhaps never forget this sad event of hurt and fear. Hopefully, the kindness in his new home now will soften the horrible experience.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Judith C. McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Pacifica, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animal cruelty regarding the story of the young bull who was dragged behind a car shocks the rest of us who nurture animals as the valuable beings that they are. I think it appropriate for the men who dragged the bull to be thusly tied and dragged on the road since it is apparently their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":8504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8503"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}