{"id":21218,"date":"2017-11-14T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=21218"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T16:13:31","slug":"ospca-threatened-marinelands-extinction-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/ospca-threatened-marinelands-extinction-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"OSPCA threatened Marineland\u2019s \u2018extinction\u2019: Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/11\/08\/ospca-threatened-marinelands-extinction-lawsuit\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marineland\u2019s $21-million lawsuit against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) is the result of \u201cinjuries and damages, including special damages\u201d suffered as a result of the animal welfare organization\u2019s animal cruelty charges laid against the park.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement of claim obtained by Niagara Falls Review this week, Marineland accuses the OSPCA of \u201cmalice\u201d towards the park, bowing to pressure from the \u201canimal activist community\u201d to lay animal cruelty charges in January and last November in order to please its donors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, through its press releases and public statements \u2026 the OSPCA has threatened Marineland with effective extinction,\u201d says the 34-page statement of claim, filed on Oct. 24 in St. Catharines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Marineland\u2019s $21-million lawsuit against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) is the result of \u201cinjuries and damages, including special damages\u201d suffered as a result of the animal welfare organization\u2019s animal cruelty charges laid against the park. In a statement of claim obtained by 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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,832,2],"tags":[13247,13248,67,1139,7904,7895,13246],"class_list":["post-21218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-marineland","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-claim","tag-lawsuite","tag-marineland","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-ontario-society-for-the-prevention-of-cruelty-to-animals","tag-ospca","tag-threat"],"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\/21218","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=21218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21221,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21218\/revisions\/21221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}