{"id":111,"date":"2022-12-01T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/?p=111"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:09:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T17:09:36","slug":"midland-zoo-icon-homer-the-polar-bear-dies-at-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/2022\/12\/01\/midland-zoo-icon-homer-the-polar-bear-dies-at-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Midland Zoo Icon Homer the polar bear dies at 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At approximately 7 am Homer was found floating in the pool after his feeding. The other polar bears were quickly removed from the enclosure to prevent any other altercations. The cause of death is unknown and is under investigation, however death for the Midland Zoo is not uncommon because that is the third death this month following a Giraffe and Bobcat. Something needs to change before they run out of animals whether it&#8217;s the staff or the enclosures and how the animals are living, either way their reputation is declining and shutting down at this rate with animals dying may be in the near future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At approximately 7 am Homer was found floating in the pool after his feeding. The other polar bears were quickly removed from the enclosure to prevent any other altercations. The cause of death is unknown and is under investigation, however death for the Midland Zoo is not uncommon because that is the third death this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1179,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/bap007\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}