{"id":111076,"date":"2017-11-30T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:06:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:06:31","slug":"the-abe-lincoln-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/30\/the-abe-lincoln-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abe Lincoln Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/SGt1AVDABuI\/AAAAAAAAAT0\/au6D6es399c\/s1600-h\/abe+bear.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218393241749030626\" src=\"https:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_n0kOLTsDBsw\/SGt1AVDABuI\/AAAAAAAAAT0\/au6D6es399c\/s400\/abe+bear.jpg\" style=\"cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;\" \/><\/a><br \/>Searching  for all things related to Abraham Lincoln this morning on the web  (while I should be working&#8230;can you tell I&#8217;m bored?), I stumbled upon  this adorable life-sized fiberglass bear made to look like Old Abe  himself. Intrigued and laughing out loud, I had to research this bear a  little further.<br \/>This Lincoln bear is located in the small city of <span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">Boyertown<\/span>,  Pennsylvania (in Berks County, in the Reading area). The local high  school team is the Bears. A few years ago, some folks in the town  started &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearfever.org\/\">Bear Fever<\/a>,&#8221; a  collaborative public arts project. The goal of the effort is to decorate  the town and surrounding communities with 40-60 fiberglass bears as a  way to develop school and town spirit. Local businesses in town  &#8220;sponsor&#8221; a bear, all of which are uniquely designed and painted. The  townspeople got the idea after learning about other cities in the U.S.  decorating with cows (Chicago) and pandas (Washington, D.C.)<br \/>Abe-Bear-Ham  (as he&#8217;s affectionately called) has a top hat, a beard, and a coat  resembling the frock that Lincoln wore. Note the &#8220;5 dollar bills&#8221;  serving as a hat band. Too cute. The story of the Lincoln bear,  additional photos, and an interview with the artist may be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearfever.org\/pages\/gallery\/lincoln-bear.htm\">here<\/a>.<br \/>The real Lincoln had to &#8220;bear&#8221; much in his life, so what better animal to represent him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Searching for all things related to Abraham Lincoln this morning on the web (while I should be working&#8230;can you tell I&#8217;m bored?), I stumbled upon this adorable life-sized fiberglass bear made to look like Old Abe himself. Intrigued and laughing out loud, I had to research this bear a little further.This Lincoln bear is located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}