{"id":477,"date":"2015-11-15T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/?p=477"},"modified":"2015-11-11T23:02:27","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T23:02:27","slug":"are-people-racist-against-black-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/2015\/11\/15\/are-people-racist-against-black-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Are People Racist against Black Pets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Black Dog Syndrome&#8221; the phenomenon\u00a0that\u00a0dark-furred canines\u00a0are less likely to be adopted and more likely to be euthanized than their\u00a0lighter-furred counterparts.\u00a0Animal welfare experts believe that the discrimination arises from a combination\u00a0of factors, from being easily\u00a0overlooked in the shadows of a shelter, to a superstitious,\u00a0negative cultural association with\u00a0dark pets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2014\/06\/black_dog_syndrome_are_people_racist_against_black_pets.html\">Click Here<\/a>\u00a0to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Black Dog Syndrome&#8221; the phenomenon\u00a0that\u00a0dark-furred canines\u00a0are less likely to be adopted and more likely to be euthanized than their\u00a0lighter-furred counterparts.\u00a0Animal welfare experts believe that the discrimination arises from a combination\u00a0of factors, from being easily\u00a0overlooked in the shadows of a shelter, to a superstitious,\u00a0negative cultural association with\u00a0dark pets. Click Here\u00a0to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,46,77,74],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-blackness","tag-culture","tag-discrimination","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.mtholyoke.edu\/248philofrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}