{"id":659889,"date":"2026-05-23T05:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659889\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T05:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:39:13","slug":"black-bear-spotted-outside-l-e-phillips-memorial-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659889\/","title":{"rendered":"Black bear spotted outside L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) &#8211; The L.E. Phillips memorial public library had a unique visitor stop by Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A black bear was seen walking up to the window of the library and sniffing around a bit, before it went closer to the woods. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Eau Claire Police Department says if anyone sees the bear, please give it plenty of space and avoid interacting with it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Local authorities are monitoring the situation. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WEAU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) &#8211; The L.E. Phillips memorial public library had a unique visitor stop by Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-659889","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\/659889","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=659889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}