{"id":1672,"date":"2008-03-13T01:23:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-03-13T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T01:26:29","slug":"why_is_this_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Why Is This Not Shocking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A letter published by the NY Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Re &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/08\/us\/08hunting.html?ref=opinion\" target=\"browser\">To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom<\/a>&#8221; (front page, March 8):<\/p>\n<p>\nShame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law.<\/p>\n<p>\nWe should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the &#8220;sport&#8221; of hunting.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe killing and maiming of animals for sport is a cruel and violent activity that is the antithesis of what schools should be teaching. Furthermore, in the context of a dramatic increase in school violence in recent years, to teach hunting is ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>\nWe should be teaching our children how to be better citizens of the community, and that certainly does not include taking up arms against other living beings.<\/p>\n<p>\nBrad Goldberg<br \/>\nPresident, Animal Welfare Advocacy<br \/>\nMamaroneck, N.Y., March 8, 2008<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be great if, say on their website, they published all the letters they received on the article. Maybe they could even have &#8211; comments &#8211; on their articles. Meanwhile, we get predictable cant.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe someone can send him a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0394700163?tag=armedliberal-20&#038;camp=14573&#038;creative=327641&#038;linkCode=as1&#038;creativeASIN=0394700163&#038;adid=1N4B9TV47VS3RA885NXT&#038;\" target=\"browser\">Dirty Hands<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter published by the NY Times: Re &#8220;To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom&#8221; (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}