{"id":2738,"date":"2011-08-31T10:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2738"},"modified":"2011-09-02T11:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:46:25","slug":"bears-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2738","title":{"rendered":"Bears return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been feeling neglected: Friends along the lakeshore have been seeing bears in their yards for a week or so, but, I have not. Not, that is, until last night when a big Black Bear wandered across my property.<\/p>\n<p>This is the time of the year when Black Bears return to the valleys. It is not that I do anything to encourage their visits\u2014any more than I encourage the falling of the leaves, the formation of autumnal steam fog, or the arrival of snow. But, I welcome all these things\u2014bears included\u2014as events to be savored on the seasonal calendar.<\/p>\n<p>With luck, I will manage more (and better) bear pictures throughout the fall. This first one is of modest quality, but then it was taken at about 2 am in the rain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2739\" onmousedown=\"return false\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blackbear110831.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been feeling neglected: Friends along the lakeshore have been seeing bears in their yards for a week or so, but, I have not. Not, that is, until last night when a big Black Bear wandered across my property. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=2738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-2738","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\/2738","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=2738"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2750,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2738\/revisions\/2750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}