{"id":628697,"date":"2010-01-12T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=88468"},"modified":"2010-01-12T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T21:44:18","slug":"michelle-obama-peta-ad-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/628697","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama PETA Ad Pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals is pulling an ad campaign that caught the attention of The White House for its illegal use of First Lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s likeness. <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Michelle-Obama-PETA-Ad-Controversy.jpg?resize=450%2C525\" alt=\"\" title=\"Michelle Obama PETA Ad Controversy\" width=\"450\" height=\"525\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-87547\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ad &#8212; which also featured snapshots of Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey, and Carrie Underwood &#8212; was plastered in metro stations all over Washington, DC as part of the animal rights group&#8217;s Make DC Fur campaign.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-88468\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week PETA defended campaign, saying it used photos of Mrs. Obama because the First Lady does not wear fur. <em>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t asked the White House to fund or promote the campaign, as they can&#8217;t do such things, but the fact is that Michelle Obama has issued a statement indicating that she doesn&#8217;t wear fur, and the world should know that in PETA&#8217;s eyes, that makes her pretty fabulous.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, on Tuesday, the group confirmed that it is pulling plug on the Fur-Free DC ad. PETA has now turned its interest to urging Washington to take a stand against longtime foe Ringling Bros., which last week debuted its newest performing elephant, &#8220;Baby Barack.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals is pulling an ad campaign that caught the attention of The White House for its illegal use of First Lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s likeness. The ad &#8212; which also featured snapshots of Tyra Banks, Oprah Winfrey, and Carrie Underwood &#8212; was plastered in metro stations all over Washington, DC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-628697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Dyh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}