{"id":138919,"date":"2022-09-20T22:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/an-extremely-rare-white-spirit-bear-spotted-in-michigan-is-one-in-a-million-but-how-exactly-did-it-get-its-name"},"modified":"2022-09-20T22:49:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:49:28","slug":"an-extremely-rare-white-spirit-bear-spotted-in-michigan-is-one-in-a-million-but-how-exactly-did-it-get-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/an-extremely-rare-white-spirit-bear-spotted-in-michigan-is-one-in-a-million-but-how-exactly-did-it-get-its-name","title":{"rendered":"An extremely rare, white &#8220;Spirit Bear&#8221; spotted in Michigan is one in a million. But how exactly did it get its name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WWJ) &#8211; Earlier this month a trail camera in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula spotted what is known as a &#8220;Spirit Bear&#8221; &#8211; the first ever spotted in the state. The majestic animal is so rare it&#8217;s thought to be one-in-a-million. The Michigan DNR says there are about 10,000 bears in the U.P. alone, so seeing a bear isn&#8217;t all that uncommon. But the spotting of the white bear has scientists fascinated. But as WWJ&#8217;s Zach Clark learns in a new edition of The Daily J , this bear is special far beyond its coloration. He spoke with a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, who is a professor at Oakland University. She told him white animals are sacred to many indigenous cultures, and explained just what it means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Upper Peninsula trail camera captured what is known as a &#8216;Spirit Bear&#8217; last weekend. The bear is so rare, it&#8217;s thought to be one-in-a-million. On a new Daily J,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,351],"class_list":["post-138919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}