{"id":363,"date":"2007-08-04T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/lazy-bear\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:41:40","slug":"lazy-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/lazy-bear.html","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent trip to photograph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/coastal_brown_bear_photo.html\">coastal brown bears<\/a> (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_arctos\">Ursus arctos<\/a><\/em>) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=lake_clark_national_park&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Lake Clark National Park<\/a>, I experienced nearly perfect weather for a full week, with just one day of light drizzle and only a few overcast days. About half the time we had full sun, with hardly a cloud in the sky, and warm. Great for us, but it can be tiring for the bears to hang in the sun with their thick fur coats. This guy found a comfy log in the center of a sedge grass meadow on which to nap, and gave us hardly a glance as we walked by him.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Lazy brown bear naps on a log.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=19251\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Lazy brown bear naps on a log, Ursus arctos, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/stock-photo\/brown-bear-grizzly-alaska-photograph-19251-544414.jpg\" alt=\"Lazy brown bear naps on a log, Ursus arctos, Lake Clark National Park, Alaska\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lazy brown bear naps on a log.<br \/>\nImage ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/spotlight.php?img=19251\">19251<\/a><br \/>\nSpecies: <a title=\"Brown bear photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/brown_bear_photo.html\">Brown bear<\/a>, <a title=\"Ursus arctos photos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?sp=Ursus_arctos\"><i>Ursus arctos<\/i><\/a><br \/>\nLocation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/lightbox.php?city=lake_clark_national_park&amp;state=alaska&amp;country=usa\">Lake Clark 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my recent trip to photograph coastal brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Lake Clark National Park, I experienced nearly perfect weather for a full week, with just one day of light drizzle and only a few overcast days. About half the time we had full sun, with hardly a cloud&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,152,180,93,134],"tags":[201,372],"class_list":{"0":"post-363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alaska","8":"category-brown-bear","9":"category-lake-clark","10":"category-national-parks","11":"category-wildlife","12":"tag-alaska","13":"tag-lake-clark-national-park"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12417,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/12417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}