{"id":567,"date":"2010-09-24T21:59:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2010-09-24T21:59:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:59:56","slug":"woman-fends-off-attacking-bear-with-zucchini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/24\/woman-fends-off-attacking-bear-with-zucchini\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Woman Fends Off Attacking Bear With Zucchini&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love bear stories. Especially the kind where a plucky gal manages to fend one off with a large garden vegetable. Thanks to Natalie for sharing this one:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/local\/article_aaae89f6-c741-11df-9ea6-001cc4c002e0.html<br \/>\nWe have frequent bear encounters at our Colorado home, and I&#8217;ve experienced the surprise that this woman faces, when the bear rushes into her yard so quickly she barely has time to react. Your average bruin can morph from Winnie-the-Pooh into Usain Bolt in an eyeblink. They mainly ransack our bird feeders. But we love our bears, and following the old dictum, &#8220;A fed bear is a dead bear,&#8221; actually take down our feeders if the bears start to show up. Here&#8217;s a photo of one of these desperadoes in our backyard, circa 2008, menacing a soccer ball:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/SoccerBear.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" title=\"David Beckham in Bear Suit\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/SoccerBear-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love bear stories. Especially the kind where a plucky gal manages to fend one off with a large garden vegetable. Thanks to Natalie for sharing this one: http:\/\/missoulian.com\/news\/local\/article_aaae89f6-c741-11df-9ea6-001cc4c002e0.html We have frequent bear encounters at our Colorado home, and I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/24\/woman-fends-off-attacking-bear-with-zucchini\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-west"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}