{"id":849717,"date":"2026-09-16T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T11:34:15","slug":"photos-bear-spotted-cooling-off-in-garfield-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/849717\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Bear spotted cooling off in Garfield swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GARFIELD, Ark. \u2014 After a summer of record-breaking heat, who wouldn&#8217;t want to jump in a nice cool pool? On Tuesday, one Garfield resident was caught on camera splashing around in a pool.<\/p>\n<p>That resident was a bear.<\/p>\n<p>Homeowner Susan Steer Magditch posted photos of the bear to the Garfield community Facebook page that depicted the bear cooling off amid the late-summer heatwave:<\/p>\n<p>    Photos: Bear spotted cooling off in Garfield family&#8217;s swimming pool<\/p>\n<p>The owners confirmed there was no damage to the pool lining after the bear left the pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GARFIELD, Ark. \u2014 After a summer of record-breaking heat, who wouldn&#8217;t want to jump in a nice cool&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-849717","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\/849717","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=849717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}