{"id":413082,"date":"2010-03-10T17:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96084"},"modified":"2010-03-10T17:17:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:17:18","slug":"bob-barker-donates-2-5-million-to-peta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413082","title":{"rendered":"Bob Barker Donates $2.5 Million To PETA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Television icon Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to controversial animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The money was used to open a new PETA office for &#8220;youth outreach&#8221; in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/bob-barker-the-price-is-right-500x753.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bob-barker-the-price-is-right\" width=\"500\" height=\"753\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-48196\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-96084\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Barker &#8212; who retired as host of <em>The Price Is Right<\/em> in 2007 &#8212; announced the donation at a ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of the renovated building on Sunset Boulevard in L.A. on Tuesday afternoon, <em>USA TODAY<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old preached his spay and neuter message on daytime TV for more than 25 years. In recent months, he&#8217;s worked diligently with PETA on a series of animal rights crusades, including an effort to shut down Sea World. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FfvXI7PxhlUMkHrlF3B3uM5qLGo\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FfvXI7PxhlUMkHrlF3B3uM5qLGo\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FfvXI7PxhlUMkHrlF3B3uM5qLGo\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FfvXI7PxhlUMkHrlF3B3uM5qLGo\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television icon Bob Barker has donated $2.5 million to controversial animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The money was used to open a new PETA office for &#8220;youth outreach&#8221; in Los Angeles. Barker &#8212; who retired as host of The Price Is Right in 2007 &#8212; announced the donation at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413082","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\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}