{"id":17154,"date":"2016-05-13T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17154"},"modified":"2016-05-13T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T13:15:11","slug":"bear-encounters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17154","title":{"rendered":"Bear encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of nights ago around midnight, I was awoken by a rather large Black Bear. I climbed out of bed to discover its nose less than\u00a0a metre from\u00a0me. Fortunately, we were separated by a windowed door.<\/p>\n<p>This bear was not that bear. I saw this equally massive fellow yesterday afternoon many kilometres away. Yet, the experience was similar &#8212; a remarkably close encounter with a Black Bear during which each stared into the other&#8217;s eyes. We pondered the world of the other, then drifted apart with neither having any real comprehension.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17155\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/blackbear160512s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A couple of nights ago around midnight, I was awoken by a rather large Black Bear. I climbed out of bed to discover its nose less than\u00a0a metre from\u00a0me. Fortunately, we were separated by a windowed door. This bear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=17154\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154","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=17154"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17181,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17154\/revisions\/17181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}