{"id":20430,"date":"2017-05-10T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20430"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T23:19:08","slug":"midnight-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20430","title":{"rendered":"Midnight bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was nearly midnight when I was awoken by\u00a0a black bear only a metre from\u00a0my bedroom. The resulting picture was taken in the dark with a phone. Consequently, this picture\u00a0surely has a lower quality than any others I have ever posted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Usually, each evening all bird feeders are brought indoors. Last night, one was inadvertently\u00a0left out and the bear found it. Upon encountering me, the bear bolted and I removed the feeder. The rest of the night was quiet.<\/p>\n<p>A black bear holds the feeder with its left paw and sticks its mouth to the feeder opening.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20431\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/blackbear170509s.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It was nearly midnight when I was awoken by\u00a0a black bear only a metre from\u00a0my bedroom. The resulting picture was taken in the dark with a phone. Consequently, this picture\u00a0surely has a lower quality than any others I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20430\">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-20430","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\/20430","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=20430"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20430\/revisions\/20436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}