{"id":11807,"date":"2012-10-08T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2012-10-06T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T13:54:36","slug":"documentary-star-urges-ontario-to-strengthen-protection-laws-for-captive-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/documentary-star-urges-ontario-to-strengthen-protection-laws-for-captive-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary star urges Ontario to strengthen protection laws for captive animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guelphmercury.com\/news\/canada\/article\/813067--documentary-star-urges-ontario-to-strengthen-protection-laws-for-captive-animals\">Guelph Mercury<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The star of an Academy Award-winning documentary on dolphin abuse is urging Ontario to enact laws to protect captive animals, including those at Marineland.<\/p>\n<p>Ric O\u2019Barry, a former dolphin trainer turned animal activist, is lending his support to Zoocheck Canada and former park employees who allege animals at the Niagara Falls tourist attraction aren\u2019t properly cared for.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how it measured up to other parks he has seen outside Canada, O\u2019Barry, who has not visited Marineland since the 1990s, responded: \u201cRelative to progressive countries, very civilized countries, yeah, Marineland is the worst by far.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Have you seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1313104\/\">The Cove<\/a>? It is a fascinating movie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Guelph Mercury: The star of an Academy Award-winning documentary on dolphin abuse is urging Ontario to enact laws to protect captive animals, including those at Marineland. Ric O\u2019Barry, a former dolphin trainer turned animal activist, is lending his support to Zoocheck Canada and former park employees who allege animals at the Niagara Falls&#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_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":[8135,8134,248,5749,8133,1056,67,41,8136,1989,8132],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-academy-award","tag-animal-activist","tag-documentary","tag-dolphin","tag-dolphin-trainer","tag-guelph-mercury","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ric-obarry","tag-tourist-attraction","tag-zoocheck-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}