{"id":64,"date":"2013-02-13T23:22:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebirdblog.wordpress.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2013-02-13T23:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:22:43","slug":"spanish-despicable-over-bullfighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"SPANISH DESPICABLE OVER BULLFIGHTING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>So the despicable Spanish Government wants to make bullfighting a \u201ccultural heritage\u201d activity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Giving something a respectable sounding name does nothing to change the fact it is to be reviled. Did you know the Spanish (etc) Inquisition is still around, but now called &#8220;The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The Inquisition\u2019s most enduring feature was its barbarity; the same is true of bullfighting &#8211; or torture for fun. It\u2019s on the decline even in Spain \u2013 a country that seems to have a thing for enjoying animal suffering \u2013 and it does not belong in a nation that wants to be part of Western European.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A makeover of image does not alter the fact that bullfighting should be a matter of shame, time for it to be consigned to the history books.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the despicable Spanish Government wants to make bullfighting a \u201ccultural heritage\u201d activity. Giving something a respectable sounding name does nothing to change the fact it is to be reviled. Did you know the Spanish (etc) Inquisition is still around, but now called &#8220;The Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office&#8221;? The Inquisition\u2019s most enduring feature&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/?p=64\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPANISH DESPICABLE OVER BULLFIGHTING<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikes-comments","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebird.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}