{"id":15177,"date":"2012-10-23T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2014-02-18T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T17:31:21","slug":"marineland-killer-whale-bleeding-for-months-trainer-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/23\/marineland-killer-whale-bleeding-for-months-trainer-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Marineland: Killer whale bleeding for months, trainer says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/10\/18\/marineland_killer_whale_bleeding_for_months_trainer_says.html\">Toronto Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kiska, the killer whale, swims alone in her pool at Marineland, often followed by a trail of her own blood.<\/p>\n<p>Her tail has been bleeding off and on since July but has been getting progressively worse, according to Christine Santos, who has been one of Kiska\u2019s primary trainers. She described the bleeding as \u201cgushing\u201d last week.<\/p>\n<p>Marineland\u00a0lawyer Andrew Burns emailed the Star Tuesday saying allegations described by the paper were \u201cseriously inaccurate, false, and if published are defamatory of Marineland, its veterinarians and Mr. Holer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Star also has an article about how the shutdown of the Ontario government will affect the animal rights changes that were announced. The article is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/canada\/2012\/10\/19\/marineland_ontario_minister_pledges_to_continue_work_to_beef_up_animal_protection_despite_house_being_shut.html\">Marineland: Ontario minister pledges to continue work to beef up animal protection despite house being shut<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Toronto Star: Kiska, the killer whale, swims alone in her pool at Marineland, often followed by a trail of her own blood. Her tail has been bleeding off and on since July but has been getting progressively worse, according to Christine Santos, who has been one of Kiska\u2019s primary trainers. She described the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[6193,8249,8250,8251,106,1523,5744,3090,67,1080,960,8252],"class_list":["post-15177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-allegations","tag-andrew-burns","tag-animal-protection","tag-animal-rights","tag-john-holer","tag-killer-whale","tag-kiska","tag-lawyer","tag-marineland","tag-ontario-government","tag-toronto-star","tag-veterinarians"],"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\/15177","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=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}