{"id":17323,"date":"2019-02-22T15:35:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=17323"},"modified":"2019-02-22T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:35:22","slug":"botswana-set-to-lift-hunting-ban-and-let-tourists-shoot-elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/botswana-set-to-lift-hunting-ban-and-let-tourists-shoot-elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana set to lift hunting ban and let tourists shoot elephants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Ag5picGwtvHehDQIYwBzg_5yQ77O-c_QbU6mkyYEAQ8aD3QdLqDPE-fr5wg8fwQZIjlGW9q1nCo1RYj0Zv4pS0dvVQH68XmW9a_JVK8ZiGXb7653VkC_s-vX-FP7ChBljGmKPDl3iOcLUQcekuYvPnWjjNR35Z5iX8bojx7ffaEXyw=w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Perfect. Poaching is bad enough. Now they want to let hunters kill elephants. Elephants probably have higher intelligence than these idiots. They certainly are more compassionate and humane. WTF Botswana?<\/p>\n<p>The Article &#8216;Botswana set to lift hunting ban and let tourists shoot elephants&#8217; originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/droolindognews.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/botswana-set-to-lift-hunting-ban-and.html\">https:\/\/droolindognews.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/botswana-set-to-lift-hunting-ban-and.html<\/a><br \/>\nJamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perfect. Poaching is bad enough. Now they want to let hunters kill elephants. Elephants probably have higher intelligence than these idiots. They certainly are more compassionate and humane. WTF Botswana? The Article &#8216;Botswana set to lift hunting ban and let tourists shoot elephants&#8217; originally appeared on https:\/\/droolindognews.blogspot.com\/2019\/02\/botswana-set-to-lift-hunting-ban-and.html Jamie&#8217;s comments are his own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[582,586,590,589,565,587,588,585,591,456],"tags":[593,597,596,96,598,594,595,592,523,33],"class_list":["post-17323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-editorial-2","category-imho","category-imo","category-jamiegray","category-moregray","category-myopinion","category-opinion-3","category-sharedlink","category-jamie-gray","tag-editorial","tag-imho-blogger","tag-imo","tag-jamiegray","tag-link","tag-moregray","tag-myopinion","tag-opinion","tag-blog","tag-jamie-gray"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16818,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/hunter-fighting-for-life-after-bear-he-shot-lands-on-him\/","url_meta":{"origin":17323,"position":0},"title":"Hunter fighting for life after bear he shot lands on him","date":"October 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hunting 101...don't shoot a huge bear that's above you. 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