{"id":662503,"date":"2020-07-30T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662503"},"modified":"2020-07-30T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T14:40:01","slug":"dont-blame-cats-for-destroying-wildlife-shaky-logic-is-leading-to-moral-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=662503","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t blame cats for destroying wildlife \u2013 shaky logic is leading to moral panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of conservationists claim cats are a zombie apocalypse for biodiversity that need to be removed from the outdoors by &#8220;any means necessary&#8221;\u2014coded language for shooting, trapping and poisoning. Various media outlets have portrayed cats as murderous superpredators. Australia has even declared an official &#8220;war&#8221; against cats.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-dont-blame-cats-wildlife-shaky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Don&#8217;t blame cats for destroying wildlife \u2013 shaky logic is leading to moral panic<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of conservationists claim cats are a zombie apocalypse for biodiversity that need to be removed from the outdoors by &#8220;any means necessary&#8221;\u2014coded language for shooting, trapping and poisoning.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}