{"id":18073,"date":"2011-11-03T16:37:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T23:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=18073"},"modified":"2011-11-03T16:39:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T23:39:54","slug":"fox-helps-announce-animal-protection-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2011\/11\/fox-helps-announce-animal-protection-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Helps Announce Animal Protection Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i> actress <b>Jorja Fox<\/b> (Sara Sidle) was one of the attendees at a press conference on Capitol Hill yesterday. At the conference, Representative <b>Jim Moran<\/b> (D-VA) unveiled the Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act (TEAPA), which aims to restrict the use of exotic and non-domesticated animals in traveling circuses and exhibitions. &#8220;Congress has a responsibility to protect the welfare of animals and ensure public safety,&#8221; Fox said in a press release. &#8220;A prohibition on the use of exotic and wild animals in traveling circuses is proportionate, responsible, the least expensive solution to this problem, and long overdue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nFor more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/eon.businesswire.com\/news\/eon\/20111102007171\/en\/PAWS\/Performing-Animal-Welfare-Society\/animal-cruelty\">EON<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/heavenlycreatures\/2011\/11\/03\/bob-barker-jorja-fox-appear-before-congress-in-defense-of-traveling-exotic-animal-protection-act\/\">Patheos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actress Jorja Fox (Sara Sidle) was one of the attendees at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[2932],"class_list":["post-18073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-fox"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18077,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions\/18077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}