{"id":1951,"date":"2016-01-14T18:13:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2016-01-14T17:27:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T15:27:41","slug":"new-york-man-gives-1500-pound-bear-a-hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/1951","title":{"rendered":"New York Man Gives 1,500-Pound Bear a Hug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=36267668\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A New York man has become an Internet sensation for hugging and cuddling a 1,500-pound bear.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Kowalczik can be seen in videos and photos posted on Facebook with Jimbo, a 1,500-pound Kodiak bear who is more than 9-feet tall when he stands on two legs\u00a0getting up-close-and-personal.<\/p>\n<p>Now This Is How You Give a Bear Hug<br \/>\n&#8216;Alaskan Bush People&#8217;: 5 Things to Know About the Show<br \/>\nJimbo is one of 11 bears that live at Orphaned Wildlife Center, an Otisville, New York, wildlife rehabilitation center run by Kowalczik and his wife, Susan, according to the center&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Kowalczik, a retired connections officer, and Jimbo playing together in the snow has been viewed more than 93,000 times on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Another video that shows Kowalczik and Jimbo giving each other literal bear hugs has been viewed more than 12,000,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae:<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/york-man-1500-pound-bear-hug\/story?id=36267666\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York man has become an Internet sensation for hugging and cuddling a 1,500-pound bear. Jim Kowalczik can be seen in videos and photos posted on Facebook with Jimbo, a 1,500-pound Kodiak bear who is more than 9-feet tall when he stands on two legs\u00a0getting up-close-and-personal. Now This Is How You Give a Bear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}