{"id":5056,"date":"2011-11-14T07:47:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T20:44:26","slug":"morning-read-dogs-not-welcome-in-watertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/14\/morning-read-dogs-not-welcome-in-watertown\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Dogs not welcome in Watertown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20111114\/NEWS03\/711149941\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that city officials are preparing to debate proposed legislation that would ban dogs from public events in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The move follows the mauling of a two year old child in August at the Watertown farmers market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After reviewing the legislation, [Councilwoman Roxanne M.] Burns said Sunday night that it includes everything she had requested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not too restrictive,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a common-sense approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would prohibit dogs from public  events such as the farmers market, the July 4 celebration at Thompson  Park,the Jefferson County Fair and sporting events at the Alex T. Duffy  Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Dogs also would be prohibited within 20 feet of city pools  and playgrounds. They would be allowed at the events if they are kept in  motor vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Is this a good, firm response or an over-reaction?\u00a0 According to the newspaper, the injured child received more than 100 stitches and has undergone reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times is reporting that city officials are preparing to debate proposed legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[878,4788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}