{"id":18722,"date":"2016-09-30T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18722"},"modified":"2016-09-30T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:19:08","slug":"parking-attendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18722","title":{"rendered":"Parking attendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A black-bear sow and her cub often sleep the night in\u00a0a Douglas-fir tree about sixteen metres above a local parking lot. Folks who arrive at the lot in the morning refer to them as their parking-lot attendants. Indeed as a car arrives, the bears will often open a bleary eye as if trying to monitor the lot&#8217;s usage.<\/p>\n<p>After briefly peeking at an arriving car, the sow and her cub have drifted off again.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18724\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/blackbear160929as2_DMF.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A black-bear sow and her cub often sleep the night in\u00a0a Douglas-fir tree about sixteen metres above a local parking lot. Folks who arrive at the lot in the morning refer to them as their parking-lot attendants. Indeed as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=18722\">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-18722","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\/18722","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=18722"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18730,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18722\/revisions\/18730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}