{"id":2856,"date":"2017-09-20T23:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T03:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2017-09-20T23:28:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T03:28:49","slug":"a-bear-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/a-bear-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bear in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"

In mid-July I went for a ride down to Connecticut, riding on the Farmington Canal Heritage trail.\u00a0 I’d done the ride twice before, and mostly saw the same sights I photographed the first time<\/a>.\u00a0 Hence, I didn’t take many pictures this time.\u00a0 Like the last time I did it, I rode all the way from our house in Holyoke to Westfield, where the trail begins, and then followed it all the way to Farmington.<\/p>\n

I ate lunch there (at this place<\/a> again), and then headed back.\u00a0 Overall the ride had been pretty uneventful, but when I was passing back north through the town of Simsbury, a cyclist ahead of me came to a stop, and then I noticed something on the trail quite a ways ahead.\u00a0 At first I thought it was a large dog, but then realized it was something else:<\/p>\n

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It was a black bear.\u00a0 As you can see, it was holding up bike traffic in both directions.\u00a0 I moved forward slowly, and the bear started to move away (that far cyclist backed off to give it room).\u00a0 After a bit of this, the bear turned off and headed into the woods, and I was able to continue toward home.<\/p>\n

When I had just gotten back into the Holyoke city limit, I was climbing a hill, and found a snake lying on the side of the road.\u00a0 It did not move at all as I took pictures of it, so I suspect it was dead, though there was no obvious trauma to it (and it was far enough to the side of the road that I’m not sure a car would have run over it).<\/p>\n

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I got home without incident, completing what was then my longest riding day of the year (88 miles, just a bit longer than the day I rode up to NH).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In mid-July I went for a ride down to Connecticut, riding on the Farmington Canal Heritage trail.\u00a0 I’d done the ride twice before, and mostly saw the same sights I photographed the first time.\u00a0 Hence, I didn’t take many pictures this time.\u00a0 Like the last time I did it, I rode all the way from … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}