{"id":5948,"date":"2010-09-18T18:04:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=5948"},"modified":"2012-08-13T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T16:36:24","slug":"bear-and-beardog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2010\/09\/bear-and-beardog\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear and Beardog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep10\/Beardog4021.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep10\/Beardog4021.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is a bear.  That is a black bear.  I think it is a yearling cub.  It is not Karl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep10\/Beardog4024.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep10\/Beardog4024.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is not Karl, because Karl is next to me and the black bear is down there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Karl was just in front of the front porch, noshing on a treat as I was unloading groceries from the Jeep.  The Jeep was also just in front of the front porch&#8230;to the south of Karl.<\/p>\n<p>Karl suddenly jumped up, did his scent gulp thing and started the bear bark alternating with nose in the air scent gulp thing.<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed Karl&#8217;s leash and went back out.  I think that Karl knows that he is not 100%&#8230;he waited.  I leashed him.  The cub was still there.  I dashed back for pepper spray and camera and we went to the edge of the ravine&#8230;watching for Mama.<\/p>\n<p>Karl kept up the bear bark.  Once I was there for backup, he strained at the leash.  I took the photos.  We came inside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep10\/Beardog4037.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep10\/Beardog4037.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A black bear, although exciting, was not the only adventure of the day.  <\/p>\n<p>A nap for Karl, a glass of wine for me.<\/p>\n<p>Bob??? He is in front of the woodstove &#8211; the woodstove which has a small fire crackling merrily&#8230; Our Saturday&#8230;partly!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is a bear. That is a black bear. I think it is a yearling cub. It is not Karl. It is not Karl, because Karl is next to me and the black bear is down there&#8230; Karl was just in front of the front porch, noshing on a treat as I was unloading groceries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-nature","category-pets"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11174,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5948\/revisions\/11174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}