{"id":200,"date":"2018-04-19T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=200"},"modified":"2018-04-19T11:31:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T15:31:12","slug":"sadly-there-are-more-michael-vicks-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/sadly-there-are-more-michael-vicks-out-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Sadly, there are more Michael Vicks out there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Asbury Park, New Jersey man was recently sentenced to two years in federal prison for his part in a cruel and nefarious dog fighting ring that stretched from New Mexico to New Jersey.\u00a0 \u00a0This evil man admitted to a federal judge that he dumped a pitbull who &#8220;lost&#8221; a dogfight in Virginia after the dog died on the ride back to New Jersey.\u00a0 See the Hackensack, NJ <em>Daily Voice<\/em> coverage <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hackensack.dailyvoice.com\/police-fire\/jersey-shore-dog-fighter-who-dumped-dead-pit-bull-in-trash-goes-to-fed-pen\/735917\/\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s encouraging that at least some such people, whose depravity and barbarism cannot be overstated, are finally being forced to pay a price for their actions.\u00a0 Those of us who care about animals would like to see them confined for life&#8211;or worse&#8211;but I hope two years in a federal lockup will send a message that such cruelty is finally being rewarded by real punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Stay engaged and keep up the fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Asbury Park, New Jersey man was recently sentenced to two years in federal prison for his part in a cruel and nefarious dog fighting ring that stretched from New Mexico to New Jersey.\u00a0 \u00a0This evil man admitted to a federal judge that he dumped a pitbull who &#8220;lost&#8221; a dogfight in Virginia after the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2018\/04\/19\/sadly-there-are-more-michael-vicks-out-there\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sadly, there are more Michael Vicks out there&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,38,36,27,13,140,39],"tags":[35,142,141,143,144,145,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}