{"id":21599,"date":"2017-08-20T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21599"},"modified":"2017-08-20T08:58:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T15:58:49","slug":"by-continuing-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21599","title":{"rendered":"By continuing to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Satire often gains its effect by joining disparate ideas. So it was that when I encountered:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 The government of BC&#8217;s recent (partial) ban on hunting grizzlies;<br \/>\n\u2022 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/grizzly-bear-hunt-ban-trophy-ndp-conservation-1.4251815\">CBC story<\/a> that told of the thrill of killing a grizzly;<br \/>\n\u2022 The many websites that assert: &#8220;By continuing to browse our site, <br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 you are agreeing to our use of (tracking) cookies.&#8221; (Huh?)<\/p>\n<p>I imagined our wilderness filled with notices to wildlife.<br \/>\n <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-21600\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/bycontinuing180820s2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Satire often gains its effect by joining disparate ideas. So it was that when I encountered: \u2022 The government of BC&#8217;s recent (partial) ban on hunting grizzlies; \u2022 A CBC story that told of the thrill of killing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=21599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21599"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21609,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21599\/revisions\/21609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}