{"id":323821,"date":"2010-02-15T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a25076970b"},"modified":"2010-02-15T15:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T20:43:29","slug":"figure-skater-johnny-weir-says-threats-from-animal-rights-activists-made-him-fear-for-his-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323821","title":{"rendered":"Figure skater Johnny Weir says threats from animal-rights activists made him fear for his safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a24a03970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weir\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a24a03970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a24a03970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Weir\"><\/img><\/a> <\/span>VANCOUVER, Canada \u2014 U.S. figure skater <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johnny_Weir\">Johnny Weir<\/a> is staying at the Olympic village because he is concerned about his safety after receiving what he considers &quot;very serious threats&quot; from anti-fur activists.<\/p>\n<p>Weir had talked about staying in a hotel because he didn&#8217;t enjoy his experience in the Olympic village four years ago. Weir says arranging security at a hotel would have been too tough, while the village is under tight control. Weir is sharing a two-bedroom suite with ice dancer Tanith Belbin.<\/p>\n<p>Weir <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/olympics_blog\/2010\/01\/animal-advocacy-johnny-weir.html\">drew the ire of animal-rights activists<\/a> last month after he added white fox fur to the left shoulder of his costume for the free skate at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay up-to-date on animal news: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Weir competes during the men&#8217;s free skate portion of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Jan. 17. Credit: Elaine Thompson \/ Associated Press<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER, Canada \u2014 U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir is staying at the Olympic village because he is concerned about his safety after receiving what he considers &quot;very serious threats&quot; from anti-fur activists. Weir had talked about staying in a hotel because he didn&#8217;t enjoy his experience in the Olympic village four years ago. Weir says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}