{"id":114,"date":"2012-03-13T22:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T22:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2021-03-10T00:44:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:44:20","slug":"exotic-animal-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Exotic Animal Ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;6px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.9.1&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: #ffffff; clear: both; font-weight: normal; color: #555555; font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\">Emma is a 13-year-old spider monkey who lives at Bethsaida Farms in Vinton County, Ohio. Her owner, Cy Vierstra, cares for a menagerie of native and exotic animals on his land, where he has constructed specialized housing for each critter and offers educational visits to the public. Vierstra is one of the plaintiffs fighting to stop Ohio Senate Bill 310, which puts strict regulations on exotic animal owners in the wake of the Zanesville animal disaster of 2011 during which more than 50 animals had to be shot after their suicidal owner let them loose in Zanesville, Ohio.<\/h4>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma is a 13-year-old spider monkey who lives at Bethsaida Farms in Vinton County, Ohio. Her owner, Cy Vierstra, cares for a menagerie of native and exotic animals on his land, where he has constructed specialized housing for each critter and offers educational visits to the public. Vierstra is one of the plaintiffs fighting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/meganwestervelt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Westervelt_001_small.jpg?fit=2500%2C1667&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganwestervelt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}