{"id":17194,"date":"2009-07-23T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17194"},"modified":"2012-08-05T13:08:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:08:22","slug":"cycling-road-tales-from-the-road-chased-by-a-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17194","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road &#8211; Tales from the road: Chased by a bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17195\" title=\"bear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/07\/bear.bmp\" alt=\"bear\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK, Mr. Bear,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said calmly and quietly.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just leaving.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The massive beast plodded to within four feet of my side and stood still.\u00c2\u00a0 I gazed into his cold, black eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 Blades of grass stuck out on either side of his grizzled face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I panicked as my mind replayed all I had read.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Stay calm and talk quietly to the bear as you slowly back away,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the books had said.\u00c2\u00a0 The problem was that I was straddled on my bike and couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t back away&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-17598-World-Bike-Touring-Examiner~y2009m7d22-Tales-from-the-road-Chased-by-a-bear--Part-2\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 &#8230; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK, Mr. Bear,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said calmly and quietly.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just leaving.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The massive beast plodded to within four feet of my side and stood still.\u00c2\u00a0 I gazed into his cold, black eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 Blades of grass stuck out on either side of his grizzled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17194"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67832,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions\/67832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}