{"id":721628,"date":"2010-04-22T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=101669"},"modified":"2010-04-22T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T12:35:08","slug":"bea-arthur-peta-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/721628","title":{"rendered":"Bea Arthur PETA Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Bea-Arthur-PETA-Ad-Picture-500x614.jpg?resize=500%2C614\" alt=\"\" title=\"Bea Arthur PETA Ad Picture\" width=\"500\" height=\"614\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-101670\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our beloved Dorothy Zbornak &#8212; a devoted animal rights activist &#8212; is making a posthumous appearance in the latest ad from the fur-hating zealots at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.<\/p>\n<p>PETA is bringng actress Bea Arthur back to life almost a year to the day of her death in a new campaign promo sticking it to McDonald&#8217;s. <span id=\"more-101669\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A photograph of Bea appears next to this headline: \u201cMcCruelty. It\u2019s enough to make Bea Arthur roll over in her grave.\u201d The bold print in followed by a pro-animal monologue that begins with the words: <em>\u201cDeath couldn\u2019t stop this Golden Girl from fighting the Golden Arches\u2019 cruel slaughter practices&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The late sitcom legend <em>&#8220;was a staunch supporter of PETA&#8217;s initiatives against so-called factory farming techniques and she will be the public face of an effort in that campaign to be aimed at McDonald&#8217;s. A photograph of Ms. Arthur is to appear in the ad next to this headline: &#8216;McCruelty. It&#8217;s enough to make Bea Arthur roll over in her grave,&#8217;&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/21\/a-new-peta-ad-will-feature-the-late-bea-arthur\/?loc=interstitialskip\">The New York Times<\/a><\/em> said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;When she was alive, Bea Arthur was one of PETA&#8217;s most stalwart supporters, and now\u2014through a provocative campaign that PETA is launching thanks to a bequest in her will\u2014Bea will remain an activist even in death,&#8221;<\/em> a PETA spokesperson remarked in a presser this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Arthur, best known as star of the hit TV comedies <em>Maude<\/em> and <em>The Golden Girls<\/em>, died of cancer last April 25.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tZ0IshfE6lFZgyB4u2JMt5XkWl8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tZ0IshfE6lFZgyB4u2JMt5XkWl8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tZ0IshfE6lFZgyB4u2JMt5XkWl8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/tZ0IshfE6lFZgyB4u2JMt5XkWl8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our beloved Dorothy Zbornak &#8212; a devoted animal rights activist &#8212; is making a posthumous appearance in the latest ad from the fur-hating zealots at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA is bringng actress Bea Arthur back to life almost a year to the day of her death in a new campaign promo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-721628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-31Ja","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721628","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\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}