{"id":15606,"date":"2011-09-27T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T07:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15606"},"modified":"2011-09-27T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T07:23:46","slug":"barcelona-bullfighting-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/27\/barcelona-bullfighting-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona bullfighting is no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/09\/the-last-bullfight-in-barcelona\">Kottke blog<\/a> I&#8217;ve learned that Barcelona just celebrated its last bullfight. Apparently, the vote has past last year to stop this old tradition. \u00a0And as much I am in favor of preserving cultural bits, I do agree that bullfighting falls under animal cruelty and thus should be stopped. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2011\/09\/25\/world\/europe\/26bullfight-ss.html\">New York Times<\/a> has a few photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bullfighting.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15607\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/27\/barcelona-bullfighting-is-no-more\/bullfighting\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bullfighting.jpg?fit=600%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,452\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Bullfighting\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bullfighting.jpg?fit=600%2C452&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15607\" title=\"Bullfighting\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bullfighting-500x376.jpg?resize=500%2C376&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bullfighting.jpg?resize=500%2C376&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/bullfighting.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Via Kottke blog I&#8217;ve learned that Barcelona just celebrated its last bullfight. Apparently, the vote has past last year to stop this old tradition. \u00a0And as much I am in favor of preserving cultural bits, I do agree that bullfighting falls under animal cruelty and thus should be stopped. \u00a0New York Times has a few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/27\/barcelona-bullfighting-is-no-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barcelona bullfighting is no more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2917,255,429,1128,2918],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-animal-cruelty","tag-animals","tag-culture","tag-lifestyle","tag-spain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21866,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/27\/animal-testing-for-the-government\/","url_meta":{"origin":15606,"position":0},"title":"Animal testing for the government","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 27, 2014","format":"status","excerpt":"Cyprus Mail reports that the government is to\u00a0tackle animal welfare. 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