{"id":2442378,"date":"2019-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=302857"},"modified":"2019-04-01T07:58:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:58:21","slug":"animals-arent-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/animals-arent-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals aren\u2019t props"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">In regard to the idea of a horse stationed in front of Kemo Sabe:<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I don\u2019t care for this idea at all. It\u2019s bad enough that we have horses pulling people in a carriage around Aspen in this day and age. Is it really necessary and appropriate to use a horse as a prop for a storefront? As a country, I thought we were beginning to grow past the idea of animals for the sake of entertainment. I am quite disheartened by the idea of this, let alone the reality of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Marcy Newberger<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">McLean, Virginia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/animals-arent-props\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In regard to the idea of a horse stationed in front of Kemo Sabe: I don\u2019t care for this idea at all. It\u2019s bad enough that we have horses pulling people in a carriage around Aspen in this day and age. Is it really necessary and appropriate to use a horse as a prop for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 01:20:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}