{"id":98849,"date":"2018-07-06T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/talk-about-town-smokey-bear-visits-cub-burned-in-416-fire\/"},"modified":"2018-07-06T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T21:24:36","slug":"talk-about-town-smokey-bear-visits-cub-burned-in-416-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/talk-about-town-smokey-bear-visits-cub-burned-in-416-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about town: Smokey Bear visits cub burned in 416 Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=63dff8fc-3f49-4d5d-a3cd-083779a0ee8f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=63dff8fc-3f49-4d5d-a3cd-083779a0ee8f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=63dff8fc-3f49-4d5d-a3cd-083779a0ee8f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=63dff8fc-3f49-4d5d-a3cd-083779a0ee8f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1753\" height=\"1228\" alt=\"Smokey Bear visited a cub burned in the 416 Fire on Tuesday at a rehabilitation center near Del Norte.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Smokey Bear visited a cub burned in the 416 Fire on Tuesday at a rehabilitation center near Del Norte.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Southwest Colorado Wildfire Coalition<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A video documenting the female cub\u2019s recovery and the visit by Smokey Bear was posted on YouTube by the Southwest Colorado Wildfire Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the young bear\u2019s paws, badly burned in the 416 Fire, are healing well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is just making excellent progress,\u201d said Michael Sirochman, manager of the Frisco Creek facility.<\/p>\n<p>The original Smokey Bear was rescued from a wildfire in 1950 in New Mexico and suffered burned paws and hind legs.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Smokey, who lived out his life at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., the female bear cub is expected to be returned to the wild in the fall along with other abandoned bear cubs at the rehabilitation center.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_tagline\">Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bear visited a cub burned in the 416 Fire on Tuesday at a rehabilitation center near Del Norte.Courtesy of Southwest Colorado Wildfire Coalition A video documenting the female cub\u2019s recovery and the visit by Smokey Bear was posted on YouTube by the Southwest Colorado Wildfire Coalition. The video shows the young bear\u2019s paws, badly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[2838,1332,4502,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-98849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-416-fire","tag-bears","tag-talk-about-town","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98849"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=98849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}