{"id":1063,"date":"2004-08-05T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/08\/scared_to_death\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T16:30:31","slug":"scared_to_death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/scared_to_death\/","title":{"rendered":"Scared to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to make too much light of a tragedy, but it&#8217;s weird that a 13-year-old boy dies merely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2004\/08\/05\/national\/main634120.shtml\">from <i>seeing<\/i> a bear<\/a>.<br \/>\nI found this factoid interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New Hampshire has 3,500 to 4,000 black bears, which naturally fear people and avoid them. Rob Calvert, a Fish and Game biologist, said the last time a bear killed anyone in the state was in 1784.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At no extra charge, here&#8217;s what <i>you<\/i> should do if you see a bear:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said the best response when encountering a bear is to back away slowly, talk, clap loudly, and maintain eye contact &#8211; and to never corner or run from the animal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And don&#8217;t feed it, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/08\/scared_to_death\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Scared to Death\"><p>Not to make too much light of a tragedy, but it&#8217;s weird that a 13-year-old boy dies merely from seeing a bear. I found this factoid interesting: New Hampshire has 3,500 to 4,000 black bears, which naturally fear people and avoid them. Rob Calvert, a Fish and Game biologist, said the last time a bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}