{"id":385,"date":"2003-10-20T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:23:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:23:44","slug":"385","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/385\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterinarian Explains Hunter Pathological Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After treating a black Lab for an arrow wound, a veterinarian took a moment to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/NewsWatch\/3DAF984F251EC7B086256DC500117889?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Law+and+order%3A+Dog+survives+arrow+piercing+its+head\" target=\"new\">plomb the deep recesses of the dark soul of hunters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A lot of hunters take the hunt as seriously as a religion, and anything that gets in their way is going to get blasted to kingdom come,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;Of course the dog probably ran around in this woods all year round. The hunters were probably there illegally.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Spurious assertions made to split hunters from the mainstream, where they yet remain in the suburbanifying northern Jefferson County region of Missouri?  Back off, man, he&#8217;s a scientist armed with a <b>D.V.M.<\/b> degree, so he can explain the lizard-brain-mentality which undoubtedly comes from an excess of blood and not enough phlegm in some sects of the population.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re going to say <i>a lot of hunters<\/i> are murderous skybusters (or ground-level busters), you can just as easily assert that quite a few black Labs exhibit suicidal impulses or innumerable veterinarians are nitwits.  However, I cannot comfortably assert spuriously based on personal anecdotes.  Our veterinarian is not a nitwit and the <a href=\"http:\/\/davidarbogast.com\/DuckGallery\/index.htm\" target=\"new\">most avid hunter I know<\/a> hasn&#8217;t yet blasted everything in his way to kingdom come, I&#8217;d have to think that spurious assertions only serve to make good newspaper copy, and to be a Jedi mind trick for weak minded <strike>legislators<\/strike> fools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After treating a black Lab for an arrow wound, a veterinarian took a moment to plomb the deep recesses of the dark soul of hunters: A lot of hunters take the hunt as seriously as a religion, and anything that gets in their way is going to get blasted to kingdom come,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21881,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/21881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}