{"id":217,"date":"2006-09-18T19:35:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T03:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/patient-bear\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T19:35:35","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T03:35:35","slug":"patient-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/patient-bear.html","title":{"rendered":"Patient Bear, Brooks River, Katmai National Park, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This brown bear knows why it&#8217;s called &#8220;fishing&#8221; and not &#8220;catching&#8221;.  On this overcast morning he waited nearly motionless atop the falls for an hour, watching the churning pools below the falls, before a school of salmon came up the river and gave him opportunities to catch a meal.  Brooks Falls, Katmai National Park, Alaska.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=17047\" title=\"Brown bear waits for salmon at Brooks Falls. Blurring of the...\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/brown-bear-grizzly-alaska-photograph-17047-244230.jpg\" alt=\"Brown bear waits for salmon at Brooks Falls. Blurring of the water is caused by a long shutter speed. Brooks River, Ursus arctos, Katmai National Park, Alaska\" title=\"Brown bear waits for salmon at Brooks Falls. Blurring of the water is caused by a long shutter speed. Brooks River, Ursus arctos, Katmai National Park, Alaska\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Brown bear waits for salmon at Brooks Falls. Blurring of the water is caused by a long shutter speed. Brooks River.<br \/>Image ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=17047\">17047<\/a><br \/>Species: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_bear_photo.html\" title=\"Brown bear photos\">Brown bear<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_arctos\" title=\"Ursus arctos photos\"><i>Ursus arctos<\/i><\/a><br \/>Location: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?location=brooks_river&amp;city=katmai_national_park&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Brooks River<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=katmai_national_park&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Katmai National Park<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Alaska<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?country=usa\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Keywords:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=brown_bear__bear__mammal__animal\">Brown bear photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?x=grizzly_bear__bear__mammal__animal\">Grizzly bear photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brown bear knows why it&#8217;s called &#8220;fishing&#8221; and not &#8220;catching&#8221;. On this overcast morning he waited nearly motionless atop the falls for an hour, watching the churning pools below the falls, before a school of salmon came up the river and gave him opportunities to catch a meal. Brooks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,152,177],"tags":[201,218,219,261],"class_list":{"0":"post-217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-alaska","7":"category-brown-bear","8":"category-katmai","9":"tag-alaska","10":"tag-brooks-river","11":"tag-brown-bear","12":"tag-katmai-national-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}