{"id":64166,"date":"2026-10-14T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64166"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:04:00","slug":"a-dead-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64166","title":{"rendered":"A Dead Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robin has begun to declutter my living area. Soon, maybe this week, I&#8217;ll have an organized apartment with art hung. Ready to live in, not just exist. Feels good to be at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Struggled with workouts. Not sure why. I know how important they are.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal, one of my favorite caregivers, came in to pick up Shadow for a walk. You have to see this. I thought it was a trash bag, you know, those stretchy ones?<\/p>\n<p>She had taken trash out to the big dumpsters and there, on top of one, lay a dead black bear. The picture she took with her phone showed a large bear lying on its side on the blue top of the dumpster. Always sad to see dead wild neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>How did it get there? Unknown. Though. The odds that it crawled up there to die? Slim. Would have been heavy to lift. A mystery.<\/p>\n<p>Finished up my long term care claim form, mailing it back today. I have a good feeling about it even though I know they usually say no twice before approving a claim.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow went on a play date to see Annie. She has a good time. They&#8217;re buds.<\/p>\n<p>Rainy and cool here. Temps in the low forties, thirties. Snow in the forecast for tonight. Seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robin has begun to declutter my living area. Soon, maybe this week, I&#8217;ll have an organized apartment with art hung. Ready to live in, not just exist. Feels good to be at this point. Struggled with workouts. Not sure why. I know how important they are. Crystal, one of my favorite caregivers, came in to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=64166\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Dead Bear<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4421,4312,4400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elk-run","category-mountains-2","category-wild-neighbors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64168,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64166\/revisions\/64168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}