{"id":8254,"date":"2015-11-25T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2015-11-25T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:19:12","slug":"mutts-and-animal-rights-pope-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/25\/mutts-and-animal-rights-pope-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"MUTTS AND ANIMAL RIGHTS POPE FRANCIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_(cropped)\" width=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_cropped.jpg 1297w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_cropped-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pope_Francis_Korea_Haemi_Castle_19_cropped-810x1024.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1297px) 100vw, 1297px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reader Carolyn Stephens wanted everyone to know about the cartoon Mutts and all its animal rights themes, but especially the quotes from Pope Francis it featured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would also be mistaken to view other living beings as mere objects subjected to arbitrary human domination.&#8221; (The cartoonist had a picture of a dog chained up.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another.&#8221; (Pictures of many animals holding paws and flippers)<\/p>\n<p>See: <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicherald.com\/stories\/Mutts-comic-strip-features-a-weeks-worth-of-quotes-from-Pope-Francis,30058\">http:\/\/catholicherald.com\/stories\/Mutts-comic-strip-features-a-weeks-worth-of-quotes-from-Pope-Francis,30058<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Carolyn Stephens wanted everyone to know about the cartoon Mutts and all its animal rights themes, but especially the quotes from Pope Francis it featured. &#8220;It would also be mistaken to view other living beings as mere objects subjected to arbitrary human domination.&#8221; (The cartoonist had a picture of a dog chained up.) &#8220;Because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8259,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}