{"id":8270,"date":"2003-04-22T17:38:01","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/04\/22\/peta-people-doing-everything-they-can-to-annoy\/"},"modified":"2003-04-22T17:38:01","modified_gmt":"2003-04-22T22:38:01","slug":"peta-people-doing-everything-they-can-to-annoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/04\/peta-people-doing-everything-they-can-to-annoy\/","title":{"rendered":"PETA &#8211; People doing Everything they can To Annoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">PETA Urges Hamburg, N.Y., to Change Name By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) &#8212; A national animal rights group has offered Hamburg officials $15,000 to change the town&#8217;s name to Veggieburg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;The town&#8217;s name conjures up visions of unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows,&#8221; said Joe Haptas, spokesman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, in a letter faxed Monday to Hamburg Supervisor Patrick Hoak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">PETA offered to supply area schools with $15,000 worth of non-meat patties for the name change. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/editorial\/20030422\/1043216.asp\">Full Story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Ummm, unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows.  What&#8217;s next?  Will PETA force  the New York Shakespeare festival to put on a rendition of Shakespeare&#8217;s Veggielet?  Two beets or not two beets, that is the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA Urges Hamburg, N.Y., to Change Name By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) &#8212; A national animal rights group has offered Hamburg officials $15,000 to change the town&#8217;s name&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}