{"id":4783,"date":"2015-06-03T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4783"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T18:00:05","slug":"all-work-and-some-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/06\/03\/all-work-and-some-play\/","title":{"rendered":"All work and some play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working hard, so Krystal and I took an evening off to drive up to the Vince Shute Bear Sancturary west of Orr, Minnesota. There were few bears around, but we were lucky enough to see a momma bear with four cubs! She brought them out right after we got there and they were just coming down when we left, three hours later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Quadruplets_8944.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Quadruplets_8944.jpg\" alt=\"Quadruplets_8944\" width=\"446\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Quadruplets_8944.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Quadruplets_8944-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen quite a few bear cubs but never four at once so that was a huge treat. It was neat to be close enough (and safe enough, up on a viewing platform) to actually hear her &#8220;tell&#8221; the cubs to come down with quiet grunts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cub_8950.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cub_8950.jpg\" alt=\"Cub_8950\" width=\"446\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cub_8950.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Cub_8950-300x257.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe are so lucky to live in such a wild place where seeing such things are possible. It makes up for the sub-zero winters! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been working hard, so Krystal and I took an evening off to drive up to the Vince Shute Bear Sancturary west of Orr, Minnesota. There were few bears around, but we were lucky enough to see a momma bear with four cubs! She brought them out right after we got there and they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}