{"id":654,"date":"2011-07-24T07:40:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/07\/24\/110724-bigbluebear\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T12:22:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:22:31","slug":"110724-bigbluebear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/07\/24\/110724-bigbluebear\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver&#8217;s Big Blue Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more entertaining sights in Denver is the installation of a whimsical statue entitled &#8220;I See What You Mean.&#8221; See if you don&#8217;t agree:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/denverbigbluebear.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of 4 story bear statue\"><\/p>\n<p>The fiberglass statue was installed in 2005, stands 40&#8242; tall, and cost more than $400,000, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/entertainment\/4634409\/detail.html\">this article<\/a>. One can only hope that it&#8217;s not staring into a stockbroker&#8217;s office; dealing with a bear market is tough enough without another constant reminder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more entertaining sights in Denver is the installation of a whimsical statue entitled &#8220;I See What You Mean.&#8221; See if you don&#8217;t agree: The fiberglass statue was installed in 2005, stands 40&#8242; tall, and cost more than $400,000, according to this article. One can only hope that it&#8217;s not staring into a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/07\/24\/110724-bigbluebear\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Denver&#8217;s Big Blue Bear<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8379,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}