{"id":188020,"date":"2019-12-27T09:24:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T15:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188020"},"modified":"2019-12-27T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T15:24:48","slug":"minot-man-shoots-kills-mountain-lion-charging-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188020","title":{"rendered":"Minot man shoots, kills mountain lion charging him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 A Minot man who was hunting pheasants in the Custer Mine area near Garrison shot and killed a mountain lion that had emerged from tall grass and charged at him.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Gorney tells the Minot Daily News he expected to see a rooster pheasant Thursday after his hunting dog pointed to the area. Instead he was greeted by a female lion that weighed more than 100 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Gorney says he doesn&#8217;t remember dropping his dad&#8217;s 100-year double-barrel shotgun and reaching for his 9 millimeter handgun underneath his jacket. He says his instincts as a military law enforcement officers took over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP)\u00a0 A Minot man who was hunting pheasants in the Custer Mine area near Garrison shot and killed a mountain lion that had emerged from tall grass and charged at him. Gary Gorney tells the Minot Daily News he expected to see a rooster pheasant Thursday after his hunting dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188020","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\/188020","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=188020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188021,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188020\/revisions\/188021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}