{"id":9448,"date":"2025-08-04T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/peta-demands-san-antonio-aquarium-release-octopus-accused-of-attacking-6-year-old\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:10:05","slug":"peta-demands-san-antonio-aquarium-release-octopus-accused-of-attacking-6-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/04\/peta-demands-san-antonio-aquarium-release-octopus-accused-of-attacking-6-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"PETA demands San Antonio Aquarium release octopus accused of attacking 6-year-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>         The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on the San Antonio Aquarium to release a giant Pacific octopus housed that grabbed national headlines last week after it allegedly attacked a 6-year-old boy, leaving a string of bruises up his arm. \u201cThis slimy facility\u2019s exploitative encounters are a recipe for disaster, as injuries abound when timid animals such as octopuses are denied everything natural and important to them and subjected to a barrage of grabbing hands,\u201d PETA Foundation Associate Director of Captive Wildlife Rebecca Smudzinski said in a statement. Smudzinski continued: \u201cFor everyone\u2019s sake, PETA is calling on the San Antonio aquarium to stop forcing wild animals to interact with humans and release this octopus to her natural habitat, if possible, or an accredited facility where she can finally live in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is calling on the San Antonio Aquarium to release a giant Pacific octopus housed that grabbed national headlines last week after it allegedly attacked a 6-year-old boy, leaving a string of bruises up his arm. \u201cThis slimy facility\u2019s exploitative encounters are a recipe for disaster, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}