{"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":"
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Searching for all things related to Abraham Lincoln this morning on the web (while I should be working…can you tell I’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 in the small city of 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 “Bear Fever<\/a>,” 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 “sponsor” 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.)
Abe-Bear-Ham (as he’s affectionately called) has a top hat, a beard, and a coat resembling the frock that Lincoln wore. Note the “5 dollar bills” serving as a hat band. Too cute. The story of the Lincoln bear, additional photos, and an interview with the artist may be found here<\/a>.
The real Lincoln had to “bear” much in his life, so what better animal to represent him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Searching for all things related to Abraham Lincoln this morning on the web (while I should be working…can you tell I’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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t