{"id":706113,"date":"2026-07-22T23:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706113\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:44:11","slug":"bear-spotted-at-the-top-of-telephone-pole-along-new-mexico-highway-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706113\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spotted at the top of telephone pole along New Mexico highway | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman driving along a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-mexico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico<\/a> highway spotted the bizarre spectacle of a large bear at the top of a telephone pole.<\/p>\n<p>Shannon Mullens told the Storyful news agency that she was traveling from Red River to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/oklahoma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma<\/a> along Highway 56 on July 20 when she spotted the animal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first, we thought that the bear was dead, until we got closer to it and then we realized that he was still alive,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>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":706114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[14632,219825,219827,232009,36669,6494,309,203662,176898,293,10668,172288,232008,11237,185019,15207,11090,183803,71617,185022,6487,90,195600,1671,217,55531,56,54,203664,55,659,4407,203772],"class_list":["post-706113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-argentina","tag-argentina-national-soccer-team","tag-argentina-national-team","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-coach","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-england-national-soccer-team","tag-england-national-team","tag-fifa","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026","tag-georgia-us-state","tag-horizontal","tag-international-team-soccer","tag-looking","tag-manager","tag-match-sport","tag-mercedes-benz-stadium","tag-national-team","tag-photography","tag-science","tag-semifinal-round","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-kingdom-national-team","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-usa","tag-wildlife","tag-world-sports-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}