{"id":11959,"date":"2014-11-03T10:04:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2014-11-03T10:04:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:04:35","slug":"best-grizzly-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11959","title":{"rendered":"Best grizzly ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is the best, most evocative, shot of a Grizzly Bear I have ever seen (and I have seen and taken many grizzly pictures). It was taken by Jim Lawrence, a wildlife photographer (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kootenayreflections.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kootenay Reflections<\/a>) and friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The story of Jim&#8217;s shot can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/b-c-man-s-picture-of-grizzly-turned-photographer-goes-viral-1.2083662\" target=\"_blank\">CTV News site<\/a>, where Jim comments that &#8220;the picture reflects the gentle, intelligent nature of the animals.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the impact of an image such as this: It counters the longstanding scaremongering\u00a0by wildlife magazines and taxidermists, each of which has\u00a0a vested interest in demonizing these creatures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Jim&#8217;s wonderful picture tips the balance against the hunting of Grizzly Bears, so much the better.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11960\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/JimsGrizzly141102s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"552\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Jim Lawrence&#8217;s picture is used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It is the best, most evocative, shot of a Grizzly Bear I have ever seen (and I have seen and taken many grizzly pictures). It was taken by Jim Lawrence, a wildlife photographer (Kootenay Reflections) and friend.\u00a0 The story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11963,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11959\/revisions\/11963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}