{"id":624,"date":"2006-07-20T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2006-07-20T12:32:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T12:32:40","slug":"bearcam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/20\/bearcam\/","title":{"rendered":"BearCam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while something magical comes along, fills me with wonder, and reminds me that the world actually isn&#8217;t a fetid stinkhole of pain and depression after all. I&#8217;ve encountered two such somethings today. The first was the doe and two fawns that crossed the road in front on me as I drove to the train station this morning (in the middle of suburban South Jordan, Utah, I might add). And the second is the Pratt Museum&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www9.nationalgeographic.com\/ngm\/wildcamgrizzlies\/wildcam.html\">BearCam<\/a>, a live video feed from the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary in Alaska, where bears like to congregate in the summer and feast on salmon. I just heard about this awesome little distraction through an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\">Wired<\/a> and within moments of clicking over there, I was watching a brown bear ambling through rushing waters in search of a tasty snack. Simply fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>The camera operates from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. Alaska Standard Time; between 1 and 5 p.m., an actual human being makes sure the camera is pointed at the action. Better hurry, though: according to <a href=\"&lt;br \/&gt;\nhttp:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/wireservice\/0,71422-0.html\">the Wired article<\/a>, the bears wander off in late August, whereupon the cam will be shut off for the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while something magical comes along, fills me with wonder, and reminds me that the world actually isn&#8217;t a fetid stinkhole of pain and depression after all. I&#8217;ve encountered two such somethings today. The first was the doe and two fawns that crossed the road in front on me as I drove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}