{"id":26155,"date":"2011-03-27T06:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/26155\/vegetarian-bullfighter\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T06:27:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T10:27:31","slug":"vegetarian-bullfighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/26155\/vegetarian-bullfighter\/","title":{"rendered":"The vegetarian bullfighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\">\u00c1lvaro M\u00fanera was once &#8220;El Pilarico&#8221; the star bullfighter.<\/p>\n<p>Then in 1984, he was gored by a bull which left him confined to a wheelchair. Today he\u2019s a staunch animal rights defender and works to have bullfighting banned.<\/p>\n<p>He tells host Jonathan Groubert about his bullfighting career, the attack that changed his life, his recuperation, the woman who called him a murderer and how he became an anti-bullfighting campaigner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc290\/philoche01\/bul\/alvaro1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc290\/philoche01\/bul\/alvaro2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc290\/philoche01\/bul\/Alvaro3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc290\/philoche01\/bul\/Alvaro4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc290\/philoche01\/bul\/Alvaro5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><br \/>\nThis story was taken from the latest edition of The State We&#8217;re In  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msplinks.com\/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnJudy5ubC9lbmdsaXNoL3JhZGlvc2hvdy9iZWFzdHMtYnVyZGVu\" target=\"_blank\">Beasts of burden<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msplinks.com\/MDFodHRwOi8vY29udGVudDFkLm9tcm9lcC5ubC81ODg5YjAxZTE1YWJlZWM4OTM1OWI1NDBmMDc4MmIyMy80Y2QwNjQ5Zi9ybncvc21hYy9jbXMvZW5fdHN3aV90aGVfdmVnZXRhcmlhbl9idWxsZmlnaHRlcl8yMDEwMTEwMV80NF8xa0h6Lm1wMw==\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to\/download the interview<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet MS;font-size: small\">\u00c1lvaro Munera, ex-torero colombi\u00e0, a favor de la ILP Prou! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c1lvaro M\u00fanera was once &#8220;El Pilarico&#8221; the star bullfighter. Then in 1984, he was gored by a bull which left him confined to a wheelchair. Today he\u2019s a staunch animal rights defender and works to have bullfighting banned. He tells host Jonathan Groubert about his bullfighting career, the attack that changed his life, his recuperation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}