{"id":129,"date":"2010-06-08T04:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/the-silverleaf-bear-has-returned"},"modified":"2010-06-08T04:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T08:27:45","slug":"the-silverleaf-bear-has-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"The Silverleaf Bear has returned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at about this time, I was startled to see a bear running across a neighbors field. This year the bear was closer and I was able to capture a few images from our back deck.<\/p>\n<p> It looks like the same bear, only larger than last year.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b871970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bear-1\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b871970c \" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b871970c-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b8d5970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bear-2\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b8d5970c \" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b8d5970c-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b92a970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bear-3\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b92a970c \" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef01348381b92a970c-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I would have liked to gotten a clearer shot but he was a hundred feet away and my visibility was limited. I did not even consider running out the driveway to get a closer look. I was happy to be up on a nine foot high deck with no access from ground level.<\/p>\n<p>We are in Floyd County, VA, about a third of a mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway and the area in between has plenty of forest cover. Deer and wild turkeys are plentiful. Bears not so much, but that&#39;s fine as one bear leaves a lasting impression.<\/p>\n<p>The bear crossed Silverleaf Lane and went down into Ann and Rodger Bower&#39;s field just minutes before JC Thompson and his wife came down the lane on their nightly stroll.<\/p>\n<p>Never a dull moment up here on the ridge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at about this time, I was startled to see a bear running across a neighbors field. This year the bear was closer and I was able to capture a few images from our back deck. It looks like &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=129\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1778,1793],"tags":[149,1848,80,151],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}