{"id":3962,"date":"2019-11-27T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T00:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.northernplainsindependent.com\/2019\/11\/27\/animal-cruelty-now-a-felony-nationwide\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T06:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:43:29","slug":"animal-cruelty-now-a-felony-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2019\/11\/27\/animal-cruelty-now-a-felony-nationwide\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Animal Cruelty Now A Felony Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump signed a bill to make animal cruelty a felony nationwide into law Monday, Nov. 25.<br \/>\n\t  The U.S. Senate unanimously  voted to pass the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act earlier this month.<br \/>\n\t  PACT, which was introduced  by Congressmen Vern Buchanan and Ted Deutch, passed the U.S. House Oct. 23.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cThis is a milestone for pet owners and animal lovers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4099,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/4099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}