{"id":17935,"date":"2016-08-16T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17935"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:07:08","slug":"anti-captivity-ad-pulled-from-niagara-falls-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/anti-captivity-ad-pulled-from-niagara-falls-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-captivity ad pulled from Niagara Falls bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/08\/12\/anti-captivity-ad-pulled-from-niagara-falls-bus\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A U.S.-based animal advocacy group is questioning why an ad it placed on a Niagara Transit bus was removed last month.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Lewis-Dorer, president of the anti-captivity group Fins and Fluke, said the ad was supposed to be displayed for the entire month of July, but was taken off the bus after three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The ad, with images of captive dolphins, beluga whales and orcas, stated &#8220;50 years ago corporations said smoking was safe.&#8221; A second caption read: &#8220;Science is speaking again on captivity. Don&#8217;t let it take another 50 years to listen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mindful of a potential lawsuit, Lewis-Dorer said none of the photos were taken at Marineland in Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A U.S.-based animal advocacy group is questioning why an ad it placed on a Niagara Transit bus was removed last month. Alex Lewis-Dorer, president of the anti-captivity group Fins and Fluke, said the ad was supposed to be displayed for the entire month of July, but was taken off the&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[11078,11079,3125,1207,3642,96,11080,880,67,41,1139,1354,6450],"class_list":["post-17935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-ad","tag-alex-lewis-dorer","tag-beluga-whales","tag-bus","tag-captivity","tag-dolphins","tag-fins-and-fluke","tag-july","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-niagara-transit","tag-orcas"],"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\/17935","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=17935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17936,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions\/17936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}