{"id":8842,"date":"2013-09-02T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8842"},"modified":"2013-08-16T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T01:39:42","slug":"fish-tales-swimming-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8842","title":{"rendered":"Fish Tales &#8211; Swimming Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8843\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=8843\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8843\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/bear-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Black Bear Swimming\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8843\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A black bear swimming Clover Pass near Ketchikan, Alaska<\/figcaption><\/figure>Uh&#8230; Dan&#8230; That log in the water has ears.<\/p>\n<p>I had the binoculars and just happened to glance at the object in the water, just as Dan had changed course to avoid it.  Logs are a regular navigation hazard in these waters, everyone keeps a sharp lookout ahead.<\/p>\n<p>It can&#8217;t be&#8230; it is&#8230; it&#8217;s a bear.<\/p>\n<p>But this channel has got to be a mile wide!<\/p>\n<p>It was, we used the GPS and navigation computer to check, 1.1 miles across, assuming a straight course. We watched that bear swim the last 50 yards and climb out of the water. That was one exhausted black bear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh&#8230; Dan&#8230; That log in the water has ears. I had the binoculars and just happened to glance at the object in the water, just as Dan had changed course to avoid it. Logs are a regular navigation hazard in these waters, everyone keeps a sharp lookout ahead. It can&#8217;t be&#8230; it is&#8230; it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=8842\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fish Tales &#8211; Swimming Bear&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[980],"tags":[2107,407,724],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10588,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8842\/revisions\/10588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}