{"id":3226,"date":"2015-03-08T00:33:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T06:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2015-03-08T00:33:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T06:33:55","slug":"bear-loose-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/bear-loose-1890\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Loose (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>No little excitement was caused on Monday morning by the breaking loose of <strong>Mr. Alf. GARRETT&#8217;s<\/strong> bear. \u00a0The bear has been chained up back of <strong>Mr. GARRETT&#8217;s<\/strong> store for several months, and seemed to be getting tame, but as soon as it found that it was free it made for the river, followed by a large number of people who endeavored to capture it, but not a man got in reach of it until <strong>Mr. Ed WINDLEY<\/strong>, a young man with an iron nerve, took the chain and walked up to old bruin with as much grace as he would to a horse, and without any assistance the bear submitted to having the collar put around its neck and to be led back to its place of confinement.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Strange to say that when this animal is raging, and threatens to damage any one who gets in reach of its iron arms, that <strong>Mr. WINDLEY<\/strong> can go to it. His voice seems to quiet the angry passion when nothing else will.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<div>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 8 August 1890, page 2. Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\">DigitalNC.org<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No little excitement was caused on Monday morning by the breaking loose of Mr. Alf. GARRETT&#8217;s bear. \u00a0The bear has been chained up back of Mr. GARRETT&#8217;s store for several months, and seemed to be getting tame, but as soon as it found that it was free it made for the river, followed by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,77],"tags":[2830,2831],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-garrett-alf","tag-windley-ed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-Q2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}