{"id":482,"date":"2008-12-22T17:17:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2008-12-22T17:17:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:17:05","slug":"cruella-deville-would-be-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/482","title":{"rendered":"Cruella DeVille Would Be Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/cruella.jpg\"><\/td>\n<td>Remember the cries of Cruella DeVille to \u201ckill the puppies, kill <em>ALL<\/em> the puppies\u201d in 101 Dalmatians? Well Governor Paterson is killing all the pheasants and closing the Reynold\u2019s Game farm by the end of the year. <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The Reynolds Game Farm, is the last-of-its-kind New York game preserve where pheasants have been bred and released into the wild since the 1920\u2019s. You won\u2019t hear much about this in the mainstream press but this is the type of thing that makes upstate sportsmen really mad. The reason is that this preserve is funded by excise taxes collected on all firearm and ammunition purchases. Instead of releasing the birds into the wild in the Spring, they will be slaughtered and given away in the city and the Governor will claim credit for a free holiday bird. Sad but true.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/legislation\/read.aspx?id=4271\" target=\"_blank\">Read about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the cries of Cruella DeVille to \u201ckill the puppies, kill ALL the puppies\u201d in 101 Dalmatians? Well Governor Paterson is killing all the pheasants and closing the Reynold\u2019s Game farm by the end of the year. The Reynolds Game Farm, is the last-of-its-kind New York game preserve where pheasants have been bred and released &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/482\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cruella DeVille Would Be Happy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondacks","category-local-wildlife"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}