{"id":329840,"date":"2025-12-04T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:01:12","slug":"mountain-lion-spotted-in-duluth-officials-say-to-exercise-caution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/329840\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion spotted in Duluth, officials say to exercise caution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/blurred-frame-20.jpg\" data-lb-width=\"1200\" data-lb-height=\"672\" class=\" photoswipe gtxlightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3051850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/blurred-frame-20.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain lion in Duluth\" width=\"1200\" height=\"672\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DULUTH, Minn. \u2014 A mountain lion has been spotted in Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>The Duluth Police Department said they have been made aware of sightings of a mountain lion\/cougar in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Ordean East Middle School was placed into a temporary secured status on Wednesday due to the presence of the animal.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say they are in contact with the DNR, which is also aware of the animal.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, no action will be taken by the police.<\/p>\n<p>Officials want to remind the community that you should exercise caution if you see a mountain lion and never approach it.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DULUTH, Minn. \u2014 A mountain lion has been spotted in Duluth. The Duluth Police Department said they have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-329840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}