{"id":574,"date":"2011-08-09T19:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T23:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/?p=574"},"modified":"2011-08-09T19:02:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T23:02:20","slug":"churchill-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/2011\/08\/churchill-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-575\" title=\"2 Bears Sharing Beluga bloodied carrion\" src=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2-Bears-Sharing-Beluga-carion.572.jpg\" alt=\"Polar Bears eating \" width=\"572\" height=\"332\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-577\" title=\"Dominant Bear Takes a swipe\" src=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dominant-Bear-Takes-a-swipe572.jpg\" alt=\"Polar Bears eating Beluga Whale \" width=\"572\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-581\" title=\"Bloody Bear, Mid distance\" src=\"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bloody-Beear-Mid-distance.5721.jpg\" alt=\"Polar Bear having eating a dead Beluga Whale\" width=\"572\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Blogpost #3: Bounty<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u00a9 2011 Mark Seth Lender<br \/>\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED<\/p>\n<p>After the ice breaks, and the arctic night yields to longer and longer light, tundra on the edge of taiga turns green, and flowers.\u00a0 Fields of crimson fireweed; cloud berries ripening red to soft, sweet, orange-pink; swarms of insects for the birds.\u00a0 In the ice cold meltwater that floats in the fissures above the permafrost (hard as a rock only inches down) a frog blinks and sticks out his tongue. The Sik Sik wakes from his burrowing sleep and squirreling over a boulder stops and stands up tall to meet perpetual day.<\/p>\n<p>For Polar Bears despite the fireweed as bright as purple lightning and all the life abounding, this is a time of fasting.\u00a0 And the only feasting is on him, mosquitoes tormenting his soft nose and swollen eyes.\u00a0 But sometimes a bear gets lucky, lucky that something else has met an untimely end.<\/p>\n<p>In the night a young beluga, his skin not yet turned from light grey to white, was caught on the reef at the grief of breaking waves and low tide. To Polar Bears, bounty.\u00a0 They gather round the remains in twos and threes and though the truce between them is temporal, for the sake of supper an uneasy peace abides.<\/p>\n<p>At Churchilll Wild<br \/>\nHudson Bay<br \/>\n2011-8-8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogpost #3: Bounty &nbsp; \u00a9 2011 Mark Seth Lender ALL RIGHTS RESERVED After the ice breaks, and the arctic night yields to longer and longer light, tundra on the edge of taiga turns green, and flowers.\u00a0 Fields of crimson fireweed; cloud berries ripening red to soft, sweet, orange-pink; swarms of insects for the birds.\u00a0 In [&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\/574"}],"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=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksethlender.com\/test_1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}