{"id":125885,"date":"2020-01-02T01:43:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/02\/new-zealand-rodeo-season-opens-amid-fresh-animal-rights-protests\/"},"modified":"2020-01-02T01:43:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T00:43:38","slug":"new-zealand-rodeo-season-opens-amid-fresh-animal-rights-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=125885","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand rodeo season opens amid fresh animal rights protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists claim the cowboy events are cruel to bulls and horses, but organisers say they are a lifeline for isolated rural communitiesRodeo season has got off to a rocky start in New Zealand, with protest numbers swelling outside events around the country.Around three dozen protesters chanted outside the Wanaka rodeo in the South Island on Thursday \u2013 \u201cthere\u2019s no excuse for animal abuse\u201d \u2013 calling for an end to the sport, which they say is cruel and demeaning to the animals. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/02\/new-zealand-rodeo-season-opens-amid-fresh-animal-rights-protests\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand rodeo season opens amid fresh animal rights protests<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists claim the cowboy events are cruel to bulls and horses, but organisers say they are a lifeline for isolated rural communitiesRodeo season has got off to a rocky start in New Zealand, with protest numbers swelling outside events around the country.Around three dozen protesters chanted outside the Wanaka rodeo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}