{"id":30440,"date":"2022-10-24T06:09:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30440"},"modified":"2022-10-24T06:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T11:09:11","slug":"today-in-bear-punching-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/24\/today-in-bear-punching-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Bear-Punching News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/woman-saved-punching-bear-nose-28312354\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Woman saved by punching bear on the nose after beast pushed her to ground<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman has fended off a terrifying bear attack by punching the grizzly beast on the nose after it pushed her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The adult female black bear attacked the Washington, United States-based woman from behind as she let her dog outside for some fresh air in the early hours of Saturday morning (October 22).<\/p>\n<p>The Bavarian-styled village in the Cascade Mountains is no stranger to bears, but a charged attack from a bear at 7am is not the best way to start the day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note the article calls the bear a <em>grizzly beast<\/em> but then identifies the bear as a black bear, which is far smaller than a grizzly bear.  But it&#8217;s a British tabloid, so we should not expect clarity and concision at the expense of sensationalism.<\/p>\n<p>Jeez, I am conflicted about awarding a Kittinger Award here because the last two have gone to bear fighters, and people who fought bears to save others and not themselves.  But I&#8217;m going to do it to show, maybe once again, that women can win the Kittinger Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman saved by punching bear on the nose after beast pushed her to ground: A woman has fended off a terrifying bear attack by punching the grizzly beast on the nose after it pushed her to the ground. The adult female black bear attacked the Washington, United States-based woman from behind as she let her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kittinger-award","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30441,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30440\/revisions\/30441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}