{"id":85,"date":"2004-09-17T09:29:26","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/17\/a-short-piece-on-hunting\/"},"modified":"2004-09-17T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T09:29:26","slug":"a-short-piece-on-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/a-short-piece-on-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"A short piece on hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailwatch.co.uk\/\">Daily Mail<\/a> was amusing, but has got some people <a href=\"http:\/\/peteashton.com\/04\/09\/16\/compare_and_contrast.html\">pissed off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a load of overblown bollocks, that&#8217;s for sure. But one thing this whole business has done is turn me from loosely pro-hunt (I grew up in the countryside, and have seen the damage foxes can do etc. etc. etc.) into really not giving a flying fuck about their cause. Especially after they <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/southern_counties\/3662250.stm\">fucked up the hillside<\/a> near my parents&#8217; place.<\/p>\n<p>Without their pathetic pissing about there could have been a proper debate on the subject (perfectly legitimate parallels could be drawn between the pro-hunting minority&#8217;s fight to be allowed to do what they want to do and the homosexual minority&#8217;s fight to do what they wanted to do during the 1950s &#8211; both pursuits are seen as fine by the people who do them, but as morally reprihensible by their opponents).<\/p>\n<p>But never mind eh?<\/p>\n<p>Note to people planning on any future political protests: try being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacehijackers.co.uk\/\">amusing<\/a> or maintain the moral high ground through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahatma.org.in\/index.jsp\">peaceful protest<\/a>. Don&#8217;t act like a twat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Daily Mail was amusing, but has got some people pissed off. It&#8217;s a load of overblown bollocks, that&#8217;s for sure. But one thing this whole business has done is turn me from loosely pro-hunt (I grew up in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2004\/09\/a-short-piece-on-hunting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}