{"id":443176,"date":"2026-02-01T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443176\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T17:14:13","slug":"elk-herd-runs-through-school-yard-delighting-kids-and-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443176\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Herd Runs Through School Yard, Delighting Kids and Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids and grown-ups alike screamed with delight and shock as a herd of elk ran through a field between a high school and a middle school outside of Denver, Colorado. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/denver7traffic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jayson Luber<\/a>, a Denver traffic reporter, shared the video on social media, and it has nearly 300,000 views. <\/p>\n<p>[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-woman-gets-too-close-to-bull-elk-gets-screamed-at\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Woman Gets Too Close to Bull Elk, Gets Screamed at<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine this scene as you get to school in the morning,\u201d Luber wrote in his Instagram post sharing the funny footage. \u201cThis is the Highlands Ranch elk herd running through one of the fields between Rocky Heights Middle and Rock Canyon High schools. You can see some of the students watching this from right there on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch (and listen) as an elk herd runs through a school field in Colorado:<\/p>\n<p>Header stock image by pchoui\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kids and grown-ups alike screamed with delight and shock as a herd of elk ran through a field&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[13169,208585,79,201,41629],"class_list":["post-443176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-elk","tag-funny-video","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443176","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=443176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}