{"id":11608,"date":"2012-08-15T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11608"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:29:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:29:59","slug":"marineland-animals-suffering-former-staffers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/15\/marineland-animals-suffering-former-staffers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland animals suffering, former staffers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/08\/15\/marineland_animals_suffering_former_staffers_say.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Larry lies behind bars in a pen, his eyes red and swollen. The harbour seal with \u201can amazing little personality\u201d who arrived at Marineland about eight years ago is now a shadow of his former self. After repeated exposure to unhealthy water, he has gone blind.<\/p>\n<p>Larry isn\u2019t the only sea mammal living in distress at Marineland, the sprawling attraction in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>In extensive interviews with the Star, eight former Marineland staffers describe a pattern of neglect that has repeatedly resulted in animal suffering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Larry lies behind bars in a pen, his eyes red and swollen. The harbour seal with \u201can amazing little personality\u201d who arrived at Marineland about eight years ago is now a shadow of his former self. After repeated exposure to unhealthy water, he has gone blind. Larry isn\u2019t the only sea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[4192,7878,67,7330,41,7876,7879,960,7877],"class_list":["post-11608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-animals","tag-harbour-seal","tag-marineland","tag-neglect","tag-niagara-falls","tag-sea-mammal","tag-suffering","tag-toronto-star","tag-unhealthy-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}