{"id":472,"date":"2010-08-19T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=472"},"modified":"2010-08-19T18:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:35:13","slug":"bullshit-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"Bull(shit) Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the most popular news story on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\">BBC News Website<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-11020599\">this one about Bullfighting<\/a>.  Some would argue that it wasn&#8217;t Bullfighting but rather a show with lots of guys teasing a bull to make it chase them round an arena but that&#8217;s a difference only the Spanish would care about.<\/p>\n<p>So why is it the most popular story?  Well I&#8217;d guess that without any shadow of a doubt, it&#8217;s because we British love it when the underdog wins.  I&#8217;m sorry some people got injured but then if they hadn&#8217;t been there in the first place, they wouldn&#8217;t have got hurt.  Anyway, well done to the bull I say.  They might have killed it later that day but for a period he was the most famous bull in the world and a martyr to the cause of banning this cowardly sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the most popular news story on the BBC News Website is this one about Bullfighting. Some would argue that it wasn&#8217;t Bullfighting but rather a show with lots of guys teasing a bull to make it chase them round an arena but that&#8217;s a difference only the Spanish would care about. So why is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=472\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bull(shit) Fighting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}