{"id":6215,"date":"2009-07-12T08:17:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T13:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/polar-bear\/"},"modified":"2009-07-12T08:17:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T13:17:20","slug":"polar-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/polar-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Polar Bear!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-23\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-231.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were checking out Lillihoekbreen, a fjord just northwest of Ny Alesund, looking for a nice background to photography <em>Wind Horse<\/em>. Just as we were about to launch the dinghy Joe spotted something white with black nose in the water.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-93\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-931.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bear was swimming across the fjord, at a speed that would easily keep up with an inflatable dinghy be rowed at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"389\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-124\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-124.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He appeared to be having a bad hair day &#8211; check out the clump on his back &#8211; so we gave him a wide berth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"331\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-469\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-469.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once across the fjord he climbed out onto the shore.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"412\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-493\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-493.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Keeping a close eye on us, he trotted up the mountain, keeping an eye on us (as potential food?) all of the way.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"384\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-494\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-494.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"365\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-501\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-501.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"412\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-507\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-507.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"353\" alt=\"Polar-Bear-522\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/polar-bear-522.jpg\" width=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were checking out Lillihoekbreen, a fjord just northwest of Ny Alesund, looking for a nice background to photography Wind <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/polar-bear\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}