{"id":98,"date":"2017-07-18T12:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/?p=98"},"modified":"2017-07-18T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T16:12:12","slug":"how-little-the-life-of-an-animal-is-worth-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/how-little-the-life-of-an-animal-is-worth-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"How Little the Life of an Animal is worth&#8230;in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sickens me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/western-new-jersey\/owner-of-new-jersey-horse-therapy-farm-found-guilty-of-animal-cruelty\/587244000\">read that more than three dozen horses were abused and\u00a0 ultimately\u00a0put\u00a0down<\/a>, and yet the abuser was found guilty on only two counts and paid a fine amounting to $35 a horse.<\/p>\n<p>Can this be real?\u00a0 And I&#8217;d like to know how local law enforcement, the NJSPCA, and the prosecutor can defend this.<\/p>\n<p>And can someone explain this?:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SPCA says they were euthanized because of botulism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WHAT?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sickens me to read that more than three dozen horses were abused and\u00a0 ultimately\u00a0put\u00a0down, and yet the abuser was found guilty on only two counts and paid a fine amounting to $35 a horse. Can this be real?\u00a0 And I&#8217;d like to know how local law enforcement, the NJSPCA, and the prosecutor can defend &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/18\/how-little-the-life-of-an-animal-is-worth-in-new-jersey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How Little the Life of an Animal is worth&#8230;in New Jersey&#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":[21,38,36,27,13,39],"tags":[4,35,42,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njpetblog.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}