{"id":820807,"date":"2026-07-23T12:27:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:27:17","slug":"bear-spotted-at-the-top-of-telephone-pole-along-new-mexico-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820807\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spotted at the top of telephone pole along New Mexico highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A woman driving along a <a data-ylk=\"slk:New Mexico;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-mexico\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico<\/a> highway spotted the bizarre spectacle of a large bear at the top of a telephone pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shannon Mullens told the Storyful news agency that she was traveling from Red River to <a data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oklahoma\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a> along Highway 56 on July 20 when she spotted the animal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;At first, we thought that the bear was dead, until we got closer to it and then we realized that he was still alive,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shannon called 911 but was told to leave the bear be as there was nothing the authorities could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman driving along a New Mexico highway spotted the bizarre spectacle of a large bear at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,51722,136978,66,287439,206343,287438,323],"class_list":["post-820807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-new-mexico","tag-red-river","tag-science","tag-shannon-mullens","tag-storyful","tag-telephone-pole","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}