{"id":14305,"date":"2017-04-30T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:48:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T20:48:12","slug":"stop-yulin-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/30\/stop-yulin-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Yulin Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in a funk recently because of a couple things I have seen online relating to dog torture.  People making videos of just heartbreaking cruelties.  I can&#8217;t get it out of my head.  One in particular of some guys skinning a dog just for fun.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago I hear about the Yulin Festival in China where they capture dogs, torture and eat them.  I am not going to link to anything as it probably the most awful thing I have ever seen.  You can google it if you want to know more.  I can&#8217;t wrap my brain around how anyone could do this.  <\/p>\n<p>But what I do know is that people are working hard to end it.  Will it work?  Well it hasn&#8217;t yet.  But raising awareness is the first step.  As much as I hate to think about it, not thinking about let&#8217;s it continue. <\/p>\n<p>So I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopyulinforever.org\/\">ordered my t-shirt<\/a> (all proceeds go to the cause) and I wear it so people will ask.  And I can tell them.<\/p>\n<p>This needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/185A5915copy.jpg\" alt=\"185A5915copy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/185A5915copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/185A5915copy-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/185A5915copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/185A5915copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/185A5915copy-348x232.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in a funk recently because of a couple things I have seen online relating to dog torture. People making videos of just heartbreaking cruelties. I can&#8217;t get it out of my head. One in particular of some guys skinning a dog just for fun. A couple years ago I hear about the Yulin Festival in China where they capture dogs, torture and eat them. I am not going to link to anything as it probably the most awful thing I have ever seen. You can google it if you want to know more. I can&#8217;t wrap my brain around how anyone could do this. But what I do know is that people are working hard to end it. Will it work? Well it hasn&#8217;t yet. But raising awareness is the first step. As much as I hate to think about it, not thinking about let&#8217;s it continue. So I ordered my t-shirt (all proceeds go to the cause) and I wear it so people will ask. And I can tell them. This needs to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[870],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yulin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14307,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions\/14307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elisalou.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}