{"id":161727,"date":"2019-01-08T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161727"},"modified":"2019-01-08T11:08:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:08:12","slug":"mountain-lion-killed-downtown-bismarck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=161727","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Lion killed, in city limits, Bismarck"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-133629\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/mountainlionphoto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/mountainlionphoto2.jpg 275w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/mountainlionphoto2-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Officials with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department killed a mountain lion within Bismarck&#8217;s city limits.Police received a call shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday from someone who reported seeing a lion near Bismarck Municipal Ballpark. The ballpark is near the city&#8217;s downtown and there are homes nearby.Officers responded to the area to confirm the sighting. Authorities followed the lion&#8217;s tracks through a city park, through the ballpark and into another city park.<\/p>\n<p>Once the animal was located, a Game and Fish officer shot and killed it to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain lion sightings are rare in North Dakota&#8217;s big cities. But state Wildlife Chief Jeb Williams says the Missouri River that flows near downtown Bismarck is a natural traveling corridor for young lions in search of new territory.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Officials with the North Dakota Game and Fish Department killed a mountain lion within Bismarck&#8217;s city limits.Police received a call shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday from someone who reported seeing a lion near Bismarck Municipal Ballpark. The ballpark is near the city&#8217;s downtown and there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161730,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161727\/revisions\/161730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}