{"id":4463,"date":"2006-11-24T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/11\/24\/lion-safe-sex\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T16:26:57","slug":"lion-safe-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/11\/lion-safe-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Safe Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog\">A reader sent me a link <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/1501AP_Ethiopia_Lions_Poisoned.html\">to this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia &#8212; Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo in Ethiopia and sold to taxidermists because there isn&#8217;t enough money to care for the animals, the facility&#8217;s administrator said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Famous for their black manes, the lions are revered in Ethiopia, adorning statues and the national currency. Wildlife experts estimate only 1,000 of the animals, which are smaller than other lions, remain in the wild.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;These animals are the pride of our country, but our only alternative right now is to send them to the taxidermist,&quot; said Muhedin Abdulaziz, who heads the Lion Zoo in the capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Animal conservation groups expressed outrage at the killings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">James Isiche, regional director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Nairobi, Kenya, said the zoo should prevent the animals from breeding if it can&#8217;t care for them.<\/p>\n<p>Where is a animal version of Planned Parenthood when you need them, or would that be Pride Parenthood in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader sent me a link to this story. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia &#8212; Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo in Ethiopia and sold to taxidermists because&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-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}