{"id":177,"date":"2009-04-04T08:24:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basinbuddies.vu-la.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2025-04-21T00:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:35:20","slug":"bbcc-black-bear-fest-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"BBCC Black Bear Fest Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The mission of the bear festival is to educate the citizens of St. Mary Parish and the surrounding area about the Louisiana black bear, a species listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as \u201cthreatened\u201d under the guidelines of the Endangered Species Act.&#8221; So reads the recently updated web site. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Coming on April 17th &amp; 18th in downtown Franklin (between Morgan City and New Iberia off US Hwy 90), &#8220;The festival features all the activities associated with a typical Louisiana festival, music, food, and good company, but also includes field trips, educational exhibits and children&#8217;s activities relating to bears and the many other natural resources found in south Louisiana.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We are proud that the Bayou Teche Bear Festival has received numerous awards and was named the #1 \u201cBest New Event\u201d in 2006 (with attendance less than 25,000) by the Louisiana Association of Fairs and Festivals (LAFF).&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Visit the web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/bayoutechebearfest.org\/\">http:\/\/bayoutechebearfest.org\/<\/a> and get out to Franklin for the festival.<\/p>\n<p>cr\/30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The mission of the bear festival is to educate the citizens of St. Mary Parish and the surrounding area about the Louisiana black bear, a species listed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service as \u201cthreatened\u201d under the guidelines of the Endangered Species Act.&#8221; So reads the recently updated web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basinbuddies.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}