{"id":154,"date":"2015-12-01T21:55:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2015-12-01T21:55:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T21:55:49","slug":"animal-cruelty-or-just-plain-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Animal Cruelty or Just Plain Stupidity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Once again an instant of animal cruelty has become the most important news story on the planet. Some lady put duck tape on her dog\u2019s snoot to shut him up\u2026 took a picture of it and posted it on social media and the rest is history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Of course the picture went viral as did the backlash towards the dog\u2019s owner. Due to the numerous calls to the police they felt obligated to expend resources to track down the woman and have now brought animal cruelty charges against her despite the admission by the woman that the duck tape was only on the dog for one minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Is this what society has become? We react to anything on social media as if it\u2019s personal. Hell when we see a picture on social media we don\u2019t even know if it\u2019s real; could be photo shopped. We don\u2019t know if the duck tape was stuck to the dog\u2019s nose or if the owner put two pieces together so the glue never was attached to the dog\u2019s hair. There are numerous scenarios that would make this incident an innocent lapse of judgement, but that doesn\u2019t matter to the masses that are just looking for something to bitch about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The only thing I see this lady being guilty of is Stupidity. She was stupid enough to think the picture of her dog with duck tape on its nose was worthy for the whole world to see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again an instant of animal cruelty has become the most important news story on the planet. Some lady put duck tape on her dog\u2019s snoot to shut him up\u2026 took a picture of it and posted it on social media and the rest is history. Of course the picture went viral as did the backlash towards the dog\u2019s owner. Due to the numerous calls to the police they felt obligated to expend resources to track down the woman and have now brought animal cruelty charges against her despite the admission by the woman that the duck tape was only on the dog for one minute. Is this what society has become? We react to anything on social media as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-for-fun","category-stupid-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bills-soapbox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}