{"id":315858,"date":"2020-01-17T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=315858"},"modified":"2020-01-17T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T20:01:08","slug":"why-its-important-to-protect-the-islands-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/why-its-important-to-protect-the-islands-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it\u2019s important to protect the islands\u2019 animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have to live with the fact that these animals live with us. They have every right to have their life uninterrupted and not suffer. If they\u2019re already here, they have the right to be here.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Lucy Sablan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are living things, similar to humans. With the protection of animals, we actually protect ourselves and protect the environment.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Brenda N. Sablan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe coexist with animals since the beginning of time. They have the right to live on this planet. They actually have more rights than we do to live on Earth since they don\u2019t harm the world.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Jose Sablan<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnimals are in many ways the same as human beings. We consider them our best friend or a part of our family. Why would anyone want to do anything cruel to a family member? I strongly believe in animal rights and the need to protect them from violence and danger.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014Sally Limes<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-315858 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/why-its-important-to-protect-the-islands-animals\/lucy-sablan\/'>Lucy-Sablan<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315859'>\n\t\t\t\tLucy Sablan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/why-its-important-to-protect-the-islands-animals\/brenda-sablan\/'>Brenda-Sablan<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315860'>\n\t\t\t\tBrenda Sablan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/why-its-important-to-protect-the-islands-animals\/jose-sablan\/'>Jose-Sablan<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315861'>\n\t\t\t\tJose Sablan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/why-its-important-to-protect-the-islands-animals\/sally-limes\/'>Sally-Limes<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-315862'>\n\t\t\t\tSally Limes\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have to live with the fact that these animals live with us. They have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}