{"id":63208,"date":"2012-10-15T09:27:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T14:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=63208"},"modified":"2012-10-15T19:20:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T00:20:33","slug":"dominic-monaghan-takes-aim-at-reality-show-swamp-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/10\/15\/63208-dominic-monaghan-takes-aim-at-reality-show-swamp-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Monaghan takes aim at reality show \u2018Swamp People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dom-Monaghan-Swamp-People-article-10-13-12.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-63210 no-lazyload\" title=\"Dom Monaghan Swamp People article 10-13-12\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dom-Monaghan-Swamp-People-article-10-13-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>SFGate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday Oct 13, 2012 6:20 PM PT<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLord of the Rings\u201d star Dominic Monaghan has vowed to end reality TV shows that feature people who are cruel to reptiles \u2013 and he\u2019s starting with \u201cSwamp People.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The animal lover has blasted the producers of the History Channel show, which features alligator hunters in Louisiana\u2019s Atchafalaya River Basin swamp.<\/p>\n<p>The third season of the show debuted in February, and Monaghan can\u2019t believe it has lasted that long.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter.com on Thursday, the actor snaps, \u201c(It\u2019s) shock TV\u2026 If my hero (\u2018Crocodile Hunter\u2019 star and conservationist) Steve Irwin was around, those shows about killing alligators wouldn\u2019t be on TV. I\u2019m gonna (sic) stop them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calling \u201cSwamp People\u201d \u201cdeath entertainment that continues to demonize reptiles as monsters and animals that are okay to torture and kill,\u201d Monaghan adds, \u201cIf alligator populations need to be controlled, I understand. But the act should not be glorified on TV. Disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFGate Saturday Oct 13, 2012 6:20 PM PT \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d star Dominic Monaghan has vowed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":63210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[495],"tags":[1754],"class_list":["post-63208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-dominic-monaghan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Dom-Monaghan-Swamp-People-article-10-13-12.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gru","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63208"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63217,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63208\/revisions\/63217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}