{"id":5332,"date":"2012-01-13T13:34:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T18:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2012-01-16T10:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T15:39:35","slug":"adirondack-men-sentenced-for-great-blue-heron-attack-on-ausable-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/13\/adirondack-men-sentenced-for-great-blue-heron-attack-on-ausable-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Adirondack men sentenced for great blue heron attack on Ausable River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5333\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/13\/adirondack-men-sentenced-for-great-blue-heron-attack-on-ausable-river\/heron2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5333\" title=\"heron2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/01\/heron2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/01\/heron2.jpg 175w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2012\/01\/heron2-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a>State  officials say two men have been convicted and sentenced following an<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/18232\/20110818\/killing-of-great-blue-heron-sparks-outrage-raises-questions\"> attack on a great blue heron last August in Essex County. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael  Martindale from the town of Jay and Ryan Slater from Wilmington were  convicted of crimes including illegally taking wildlife and torturing an  animal.<\/p>\n<p>The  men were seen throwing stones at a great blue heron near the Ausable  River in the town of Jay.\u00a0 The bird was injured so severely that it had  to be euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>Slater,  age 22, was sentenced to sixty days in jail and has also been returned  to state prison for four years for violating his parole status.<\/p>\n<p>Martindale, age 29, paid a fine of just over 500 dollars.<\/p>\n<p>The attack on the great blue heron drew widespread attention and condemnation from the public.<\/p>\n<p>### ### ### ###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State officials say two men have been convicted and sentenced following an attack on a [&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":[22,4872],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332"}],"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=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}