{"id":18689,"date":"2017-01-16T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=18689"},"modified":"2017-01-16T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T01:42:40","slug":"ringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/01\/16\/ringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringling Brothers and Barnum &#038; Bailey ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This old form of entertainment limping across the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/jan\/15\/after-146-years-the-ringling-bros-and-barnum-bailey-circus-is-to-close\">finish line<\/a><\/strong><\/span> wasn&#8217;t really surprising. Circuses such as it work just fine on TV and a live audience would be too busy looking at its phone to really care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I did get to see this act twice as a kid. The first time I was really little and I recall we left early because I was very vocal in my concerns for the tightrope performers falling off the rope or something. Then we went again in grade school via some constant politicking I did on my parents who were not keen on this. Can&#8217;t remember what my brother&#8217;s stance was. I prevailed, mom managed to get tickets via another family that went every year and decided to give it a break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As for the animal rights schmucks getting a hard on for their &#8220;success,&#8221; I say <em>whatever<\/em>, you just keep telling yourselves it was your lawsuits and not the public&#8217;s general apathy over a 19th century entertainment form. I agree on animals not being tortured for public display yet your dead wrong on &#8220;testing,&#8221; which puts them on par with vaccine deniers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anyway, farewell &#8220;Greatest Show on Earth.&#8221; Over a century is a pretty good run.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old form of entertainment limping across the finish line wasn&#8217;t really surprising. Circuses such as it work just fine on TV and a live audience would be too busy looking at its phone to really care. I did get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2017\/01\/16\/ringling-brothers-and-barnum-bailey-ending\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[180,154],"class_list":["post-18689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-opinion","tag-seventies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18697,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18689\/revisions\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}