{"id":90680,"date":"2017-02-22T01:31:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90680"},"modified":"2017-02-22T01:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T06:31:17","slug":"circus-lionized-for-cutting-animal-acts-will-bring-them-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/22\/circus-lionized-for-cutting-animal-acts-will-bring-them-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Circus lionized for cutting animal acts will bring them back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_90691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90691\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/409741_10151940542625257_2059237623_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90691\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/409741_10151940542625257_2059237623_n.jpg\" alt=\"A Massachusetts circus is under fire for bringing back animal acts a year after earning praise from animal rights groups for dropping them. (Photo: MELHA Shrine Circus\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/409741_10151940542625257_2059237623_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/409741_10151940542625257_2059237623_n-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/409741_10151940542625257_2059237623_n-768x749.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Massachusetts circus is under fire for bringing back animal acts a year after earning praise from animal rights groups for dropping them. (Photo: MELHA<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/melhashrinecircus\/photos\/a.10151940541500257.876478.306293935256\/10151940542625257\/?type=3&amp;theater\"> Shrine Circus\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BOSTON\u2014A Massachusetts circus is under fire for bringing back animal acts a year after earning praise from animal rights groups for dropping them.<\/p>\n<p>The Melha Shrine Circus says performing elephants, tigers and dogs will return in May because that&#8217;s what people want.<\/p>\n<p>The charitable circus says attendance dropped last year without the animals, and for the first time in its 63-year history, the circus lost money.<\/p>\n<p>Sheryl Becker is the daughter of a Shriner and an animal rights activist who started an online petition to get the circus to drop animal acts. She says the animals often are mistreated.<\/p>\n<p>But the circus says it only hires animal acts that treat their animals properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BOSTON\u2014A Massachusetts circus is under fire for bringing back animal acts a year after earning praise from animal rights &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15592],"class_list":["post-90680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-melha-shrine-circus","mauthors-mark-pratt","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}