{"id":754342,"date":"2018-08-25T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=754342"},"modified":"2018-08-25T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T12:59:34","slug":"10-reasons-why-you-should-say-no-to-cruel-elephant-rides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=754342","title":{"rendered":"10 Reasons Why You Should Say No to Cruel Elephant Rides"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>We\u2019re lifting the veil on the physical and psychological abuse endured by elephants who are forced to give tourists rides.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;In a survey of 13,000 people, one of the primary reasons travelers gave for wanting to patronize elephant rides and shows was \u201clove of animals.\u201d But if they knew what really happens to elephants held captive in tourist-attraction \u201corphanages\u201d and \u201cparks,\u201d would they still go?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>We doubt it, which is why we\u2019re lifting the veil on the physical and psychological abuse endured by elephants who are forced to give tourists rides. Discover why you should work to end these tourist attractions\u2014not fund them\u2014and learn how you can take a stand for these awe-inspiring animals&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/headlines.peta.org\/say-no-to-elephant-rides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lf1bRtqhoBc?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;In a survey of 13,000 people, one of the primary reasons travelers gave for wanting to patronize elephant rides and shows was \u201clove of animals.\u201d But if they knew what really happens to elephants held captive in tourist-attraction \u201corphanages\u201d and \u201cparks,\u201d would they still go? We doubt it, which is why we\u2019re lifting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":754343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,17,25],"tags":[27,30,32,35],"class_list":["post-754342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-environment","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-free-living","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754344,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754342\/revisions\/754344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/754343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}