{"id":397827,"date":"2010-03-06T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a90b5c5c970b"},"modified":"2010-03-08T15:37:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:37:11","slug":"grandmother-loses-two-fingers-after-attempting-to-feed-bear-at-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/397827","title":{"rendered":"Grandmother loses two fingers after attempting to feed bear at zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YILQtH9HF88&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YILQtH9HF88&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\nPolice say a bear bit off a woman&#8217;s fingers at a Wisconsin zoo after<br \/>\nshe ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc closed after the incident Friday<br \/>\nmorning. Police say the 47-year-old woman lost a thumb and a<br \/>\nforefinger, and two other fingers were partially severed.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe woman&#8217;s boyfriend was bitten as he tried to pry the bear&#8217;s mouth<br \/>\noff her hand, but he didn&#8217;t lose any fingers. Her 3-year-old<br \/>\ngranddaughter wasn&#8217;t injured.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s unclear which of two Asiatic black bears bit the women when she<br \/>\nput her hand through their enclosure&#8217;s fence. Police tell the Herald<br \/>\nTimes Reporter the bears likely won&#8217;t be euthanized.<\/p>\n<p>\nManitowoc is about 80 miles north of Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a bear bit off a woman&#8217;s fingers at a Wisconsin zoo after she ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal. The Lincoln Park Zoo in Manitowoc closed after the incident Friday morning. Police say the 47-year-old woman lost a thumb and a forefinger, and two other fingers were partially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}