{"id":78848,"date":"2026-09-18T08:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/fat-bear-week-has-returned-and-the-salmon-are-swimming-for-their-lives\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T13:56:06","slug":"fat-bear-week-has-returned-and-the-salmon-are-swimming-for-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/fat-bear-week-has-returned-and-the-salmon-are-swimming-for-their-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat Bear Week has returned \u2013 and the salmon are swimming for their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The public will for the 12th year in a row vote for the fattest of brown bears in Alaska\u2019s Katmai national park<\/p>\n<p>The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week begins at Katmai national park.<\/p>\n<p>The 12th annual Fat Bear Week, in which the public will vote for the fattest of Katmai\u2019s brown bears as mothers, cubs and males gather along the salmon-run at Brooks river in Alaska begins Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/18\/fat-bear-week-2026\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The public will for the 12th year in a row vote for the fattest of brown bears in Alaska\u2019s Katmai national park The bears have returned to the river and are packing on the pounds as another Fat Bear Week begins at Katmai national park. The 12th annual Fat Bear Week, in which the public &#8230; <a title=\"Fat Bear Week has returned \u2013 and the salmon are swimming for their lives\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/fat-bear-week-has-returned-and-the-salmon-are-swimming-for-their-lives\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fat Bear Week has returned \u2013 and the salmon are swimming for their lives\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}