I have been fascinated with polar bears since high school.\u00a0 I did my advanced biology paper and presentation on polar bears.\u00a0 I’ve been a sucker for them ever since.\u00a0 I collect life-like figurines of polar bears.\u00a0 I have studied their habitat and lifestyle.\u00a0 I have a fictional polar bear character who seems very real to me.\u00a0 If I need an on-line handle, I choose some variant of PolarBear.\u00a0 I have even taken on some characteristics of a polar bear in my physical appearance.<\/p>\n
At one time, I wanted to take an ecotourism tour to Churchill, Manitoba.\u00a0 My passport has expired now, and I don’t plan to renew it, so I doubt I’ll ever take that trip.\u00a0 I do sometimes tune into the polar bear cams in November to watch the bears gather.\u00a0 Polar bears fascinate me.<\/p>\n
Despite this fascination, I retain a firm “foot on the ground” sense of reality that cute as a polar bear may look, they are deadly and decidedly not to be trusted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have been fascinated with polar bears since high school.\u00a0 I did my advanced biology paper and presentation on polar bears.\u00a0 I’ve been a sucker for them ever since.\u00a0 I collect life-like figurines of polar bears.\u00a0 I have studied their habitat and lifestyle.\u00a0 I have a fictional polar bear character …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}