{"id":45131,"date":"2025-07-29T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45131\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:14:12","slug":"bear-spotted-lounging-in-a-tree-outside-hospital-in-lynchburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45131\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear spotted lounging in a tree outside hospital in Lynchburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET)  \u2014  A bear was seen lounging in a tree Monday morning outside the Virginia Baptist Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Virginia Baptist Hospital employees got a good look at the bear, and it was a great pick-me-up,&#8221; said Jess Tennant, along with some photos sent to us.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/lynchburg-virginia-largest-project-ever-blackwater-cso-tunnel-digs-deep-to-protect-waterways-july-2025#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/local\/lynchburg-virginia-largest-project-ever-blackwater-cso-tunnel-digs-deep-to-protect-waterways-july-2025#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lynchburg&#8217;s largest project ever: Blackwater CSO Tunnel digs deep to protect waterways<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Wildlife Resources stuck around to monitor the bear for some time, and eventually left.<\/p>\n<p>ABC 13 has reached out to find out where the bear went next, but we have not heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) \u2014 A bear was seen lounging in a tree Monday morning outside the Virginia Baptist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7438,10962,1493,12508,2412,79,7246,35734,201,35735],"class_list":["post-45131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear","tag-employees","tag-hospital","tag-lynchburg","tag-photos","tag-science","tag-tree","tag-virginia-baptist-hospital","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131","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=45131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}