{"id":49,"date":"2016-10-04T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T20:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2017-07-14T20:59:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T20:59:35","slug":"pets-enrich-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/pets-enrich-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets enrich our lives, and we enrich theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylerpaper.com\/TP-Opinion\/241267\/pets-enrich-our-lives-and-we-enrich-theirs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/669844.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/669844.jpg 589w, https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/669844-300x229.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylerpaper.com\/TP-Opinion\/241267\/pets-enrich-our-lives-and-we-enrich-theirs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pets enrich our lives, and we enrich theirs<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>&#8220;We will concede that vegetarians have a point. While most of us still consume meat, there\u2019s an argument to be made that there is cruelty involved that should be minimized. Even conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer makes the point that someday, we might well move beyond eating meat: \u201cScience will find dietary substitutes that can be produced at infinitely less cost and effort,\u201d he wrote last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But owning pets? That, too, is cruel &#8211; in the view of law school professor and animal rights activist Gary Francione&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tylerpaper.com\/TP-Opinion\/241267\/pets-enrich-our-lives-and-we-enrich-theirs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pets enrich our lives, and we enrich theirs &#8220;We will concede that vegetarians have a point. While most of us still consume meat, there\u2019s an argument to be made that there is cruelty involved that should be minimized. Even conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer makes the point that someday, we might well move beyond eating meat: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pet-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pettovet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}