{"id":735,"date":"2019-01-01T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=735"},"modified":"2019-01-01T12:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T12:06:06","slug":"blood-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/blood-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/133\/563\/341\/ask-that-the-german-animal-conservationist-be-fired-for-hunting-those-he-should-be-protecting\/?cid=FB_TAF\"><img width='300' height='150' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/elephant2.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a>Hurting helpless innocent creatures for pleasure has a name. A &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/serbiananimalsvoice.com\/2014\/02\/05\/germany-what-do-you-call-a-german-hunter-who-shoots-an-elephant-20-times-after-a-30km-chase-answer-ministry-conservationist-mr-udo-wedekind\/\">conservationist<\/a>&#8221; working to save &#8220;game&#8221; for this purpose is a sociopath with the likes of whom any pact is a Faustian one &#8212; for the victims as well as for all decent human beings.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a7 \u00a7 \u00a7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The very same applies to the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-26105706\">royals<\/a>\u201d like Princes Charles, William, and Harry, not to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.62.113\/~totl\/skywritings\/index.php?\/archives\/198-On-Monarchism-and-Morality.html\">King of Spain<\/a>, and their noble attempts to sustain the planet as a game preserve for their age-old blue-blood sport. As of this moment, I am no longer \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.62.113\/~totl\/skywritings\/index.php?\/archives\/198-On-Monarchism-and-Morality.html\">sentimentally and aesthetically a royalist<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a7 \u00a7 \u00a7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Olympic games, too, have now been shamefully <a href=\"http:\/\/bashny.net\/t\/en\/102698\">baptized in blood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img width='300' height='212' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='\/~totl\/skywritings\/uploads\/sochi.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hurting helpless innocent creatures for pleasure has a name. A &#8220;conservationist&#8221; working to save &#8220;game&#8221; for this purpose is a sociopath with the likes of whom any pact is a Faustian one &#8212; for the victims as well as for all decent human beings. \u00a7 \u00a7 \u00a7 The very same applies to the \u201croyals\u201d like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/01\/01\/blood-sport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blood Sport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}