{"id":505,"date":"2011-08-07T23:05:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T03:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2011-08-08T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:34:31","slug":"day-1-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/2011\/08\/day-1-churchill\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1, Churchill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-507\" title=\"Polar Bear\" src=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bear-straight-on.5721.jpg\" alt=\"Standing Polar Bear coming toward Mark Lender\" width=\"571\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-512\" href=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/2011\/08\/day-1-churchill\/bear-wiping-face-572-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-512\" title=\"Polar Bear wiping face\" src=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bear-wiping-face.5721.jpg\" alt=\"Polar Bear on the rocks\" width=\"572\" height=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-511\" href=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/2011\/08\/day-1-churchill\/bear-in-out-of-focus-rocks-572\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-511\" title=\"Polar Bear\" src=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bear-in-out-of-focus-rocks.572.jpg\" alt=\"Large Polar Bear on rocks with Mark Lender\" width=\"572\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Day 1: \u00a0Churchill, Canada<\/h3>\n<p>The length of day misleads.\u00a0 What looks and feels like a coastal summer 6 PM anywhere between Boston and Ventura is closer to 9.\u00a0 Only come 10 o\u2019clock does night at last arrive and even then, for a long time still the quality of the sky is twilight.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise Polar Bears mislead.\u00a0 What is big \u2013 bigger than you would believe if you have not seen it for yourself \u2013 is also remarkably calm.\u00a0 Why shouldn\u2019t he, the biggest thing around and this he knows, and only the others of his kind worthy of consideration.\u00a0 He looks at you with soft eyes that belie intention and that intention is this:\u00a0 Everything he sees, is food. Including you.<\/p>\n<p>Here on the seal river, Churchill Wild provides two guides with every party out on foot.\u00a0 Terry in the back, Andy in front, both of them with pistols that fire screamers, and flares that explode load as a shotgun.\u00a0 And if that fails, there are the shotguns. But what keeps us safe is their expertise, not the armament.\u00a0 They know the bears, the bears know them and by long association what the limits are.\u00a0 And the beneficiary of this is me, and you, close up and personal, with a creature most of us never get to see at all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Day 1: \u00a0Churchill, Canada The length of day misleads.\u00a0 What looks and feels like a coastal summer 6 PM anywhere between Boston and Ventura is closer to 9.\u00a0 Only come 10 o\u2019clock does night at last arrive and even then, for a long time still the quality of the sky is twilight. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}