{"id":574,"date":"2011-10-04T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-10-04T01:07:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:07:05","slug":"they-shouldve-let-the-dogs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=574","title":{"rendered":"They Should&#8217;ve Let the Dogs Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Eagles, preseason favorites for the Super Bowl, are 1-3 a quarter of the way through the NFL season. Their star quarterback, Michael Vick, complained last week that defenders are taking unnecessary shots at him. Boo-hoo-hoo! We here at the Bucket are big time animal lovers and we&#8217;re thinking he got off rather soft back in 2007 when he was convicted for participating in an illegal dog fighting ring which involved the abuse, torture and execution of canines. Even though he spent 21 months in prison, we have absolutely no sympathy for this man whatsoever. Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our August 16, 2007 issue which depicts what we think the appropriate punishment for Mr. Vick should&#8217;ve been.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_575\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=575\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-575\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-575\" title=\"vickdogs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vickdogs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vickdogs.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/vickdogs-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judges decided that as punishment for running a brutal, inhumane dog fighting ring, football star Michael Vick, be fitted with a specially made &#39;meat suit&#39; and be let loose to frolic with a pack of starving, ill-tempered, attack dogs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Eagles, preseason favorites for the Super Bowl, are 1-3 a quarter of the way through the NFL season. Their star quarterback, Michael Vick, complained last week that defenders are taking unnecessary shots at him. Boo-hoo-hoo! We here at the Bucket are big time animal lovers and we&#8217;re thinking he got off rather soft &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Should&#8217;ve Let the Dogs Out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[191,192,193,190,194,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}