{"id":108,"date":"2013-12-20T16:54:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-12-20T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:54:58","slug":"seaworlds-counterattack-on-blackfish-gets-more-aggressive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/seaworlds-counterattack-on-blackfish-gets-more-aggressive\/","title":{"rendered":"SeaWorld\u2019s counterattack on Blackfish gets more aggressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PETA-s-Whale-Slavery-Lawsuit-Against-SeaWorld-Tossed-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PETA-s-Whale-Slavery-Lawsuit-Against-SeaWorld-Tossed-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"PETA-s-Whale-Slavery-Lawsuit-Against-SeaWorld-Tossed-2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The &#8220;Open Letter from SeaWorld&#8217;s Animal Advocates&#8221; \u2014 which appears in today&#8217;s Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today, among other papers \u2014 is SeaWorld\u2019s answer to criticisms raised by the CNN film. It doesn\u2019t identifies the \u201cBlackfish\u201d directly but defends the park\u2019s way of caring for its 29 whales SeaWorld President and Chief Executive Officer\u00a0Jim Atchison\u00a0said in an interview Thursday that the company decided to respond after several well-known performers backed out of concerts that had been scheduled for early next year at SeaWorld Orlando, most of them citing the &#8220;Blackfish&#8221; controversy. <!--more-->\u201cThe men and women of <a title=\"Sea World Transportation\" href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/en\/transportation\/Sea-World-104816.php\">SeaWorld<\/a> are true animal advocates. We are the 1,500 scientists, researchers, veterinarians, trainers, marine biologists, aquarists, aviculturists, educators and conservationists who have dedicated our lives to the animals in our care as well as those in the wild that are injured, ill or orphaned. Whether it\u2019s a sea lion, manatee, sea turtle or whale, we are on call 24\/7.\u201d states the letter. More on the theme read on <a title=\"The story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-seaworld-blackfish-ads-20131219,0,418540.story\">OrlandoSentinel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Open Letter from SeaWorld&#8217;s Animal Advocates&#8221; \u2014 which appears in today&#8217;s Orlando Sentinel, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today, among other papers \u2014 is SeaWorld\u2019s answer to criticisms raised by the CNN film. It doesn\u2019t identifies the \u201cBlackfish\u201d directly but defends the park\u2019s way of caring for its 29 whales SeaWorld &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/seaworlds-counterattack-on-blackfish-gets-more-aggressive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SeaWorld\u2019s counterattack on Blackfish gets more aggressive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}