{"id":785,"date":"2014-08-20T05:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=785"},"modified":"2014-08-20T05:46:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T12:46:53","slug":"goal-10-see-some-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=785","title":{"rendered":"Goal #10 :: See some Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/103895723\" width=\"500\" height=\"889\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/103895723\">bearmorning<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user950343\">mike k<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning I awoke to loud rustling around 7am.  It had the familiar pace of an animal negotiating obstacles.  Luckily, I slept with the rain fly off my tent, so I could watch the shooting stars after my hike.  My eyes still at a soft focus, I searched the brush for where the sounds were originating.<\/p>\n<p>I hear the crunch and chew of an animal eating.  But where is it?<br \/>\nThen came the thud of an apple striking the ground.  I looked up to see the black bear up near the top of the tree, running a train on the apples.<\/p>\n<p>My neighbors left their beer-can trash out the previous night.  There&#8217;s a strict no trash policy to avoid bear encounters.  Hitting the road for Asheville, I didn&#8217;t have time to see how the scenario panned out, but he was eating apples by the dozen, so I figured the sleeping campers were better left alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bearCrossing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bearCrossing-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"bearCrossing\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-786\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bearCrossing-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/bearCrossing-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the Skyline Drive the previous day, I did get to catch a rather cute bear-crossing.  A mama bear + four cubs.  If you watch the Skyline timelapse, you can catch them for a moment when I&#8217;m stopped behind an SUV.  I did catch the last bear on my DSLR, but I didn&#8217;t have time to touch the settings (left on manual), so it is what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bearmorning from mike k on Vimeo. Sunday morning I awoke to loud rustling around 7am. It had the familiar pace of an animal negotiating obstacles. Luckily, I slept with the rain fly off my tent, so I could watch the shooting stars after my hike. My eyes still at a soft focus, I searched the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-down-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}