{"id":14,"date":"2009-03-19T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/esma\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T22:33:23","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA1.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-841\" title=\"Inside ESMA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA1-225x300.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA1.jpg?w=453&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA) was formed in late 2007 in response to a horrific shooting spree of street dogs by the Egyptian government. A small group of Egyptians and expatriates came together to fight this notion of population control and to protect and rescue the animals in immediate danger. ESMA is a charitable organization registered in Egypt (No. 3059\/2007) that operates a shelter and adoption center.\u00a0 We currently house over 2,000 animals, including dogs, cats, and donkeys.\u00a0 We are committed to improving animal welfare in Egypt in all areas of need, including: dogs and cats; donkeys and horses; animals in the Cairo zoo; and pet shops.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA-2.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-843\" title=\"Inside ESMA 2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA-2.jpg?resize=240%2C159&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA-2.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esmaegypt.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/Inside-ESMA-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals (ESMA) was formed in late 2007 in response to a horrific shooting spree of street dogs by the Egyptian government. A small group of Egyptians and expatriates came together to fight this notion of population control and to protect and rescue the animals in immediate danger. ESMA is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esmaegypt.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}