{"id":23638,"date":"2011-11-11T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/sometimes-human-beings-suck.html"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:42:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T00:42:24","slug":"sometimes-human-beings-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/sometimes-human-beings-suck.html","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Human Beings Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bye, Western Black Rhino in the wild.  Sorry that folks out to make money with quack medicine, hunting trophies, and payoffs didn&#39;t think it was worth anything to preserve you. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_19315122'>Poaching blamed for loss of Western Black Rhino &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGENEVA\u2014Lax anti-poaching efforts are to blame for the loss of the last wild specimens of Western Black Rhino, leading the rhinoceros subspecies to be declared officially extinct this week, conservatio&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good-bye, Western Black Rhino in the wild. Sorry that folks out to make money with quack medicine, hunting trophies, and payoffs didn&#39;t think it was worth anything to preserve you. #ddtb Embedded Link Poaching blamed for loss of Western Black Rhino &#8211; The Denver Post GENEVA\u2014Lax anti-poaching efforts are to blame for the loss of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/sometimes-human-beings-suck.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes Human Beings Suck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127534,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/16\/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-rhino-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":23638,"position":0},"title":"Why we can&#039;t have nice things (Rhino Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 16-Aug-15 10:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When folk medicine meets global markets and high profits ... the results aren't pretty.How do you disincent people from paying ungodly amounts for rhino horn, when they are convinced that it will cure impotence and cancer? 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