{"id":249,"date":"2009-10-21T15:33:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/2009\/10\/denver-pit-bull-tribunal-wrong\/"},"modified":"2009-10-21T15:33:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T23:33:47","slug":"denver-pit-bull-tribunal-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/denver-pit-bull-tribunal-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"What if the Denver "pit bull" tribunal is wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great article<\/a> about Dexter, a dog originally determined to be a "pit bull" by Denver’s "Pit Bull Evaluation Team".  In what amounts to an appeal process, a Denver hearing officer ruled in early October that all three <\/em>members of that "Evaluation Team" had been wrong!<\/p>\n

Now, if you’ve followed my blog at all, you’ll know that I am of the opinion that the "identification problem" or "vagueness" is a red herring and misses the point of the real issue.<\/p>\n

The question that should be asked is not how <\/em>anyone can identify a "pit bull", but rather why<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Why should anyone identify any dog’s breed or genetic makeup for the purpose of legislatively singling it out from all other dog types?"<\/p>\n

That said, any time someone makes these "gods" of breed identification look like idiots, I’m all for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Any time someone makes the “gods” of breed identification look like idiots, I’m all for it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6,8,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-legislation","category-pit-bulls","category-science-and-statistics","category-solutions-bad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chicobandido.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}