{"id":743831,"date":"2022-01-11T00:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/watch-herd-of-elk-halts-traffic-on-north-carolina-highway\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T00:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T00:18:02","slug":"watch-herd-of-elk-halts-traffic-on-north-carolina-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/watch-herd-of-elk-halts-traffic-on-north-carolina-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Herd of elk halts traffic on North Carolina highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Herd-of-elk-halts-traffic-on-North-Carolina-highway.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Traffic on a North Carolina highway was brought to a standstill when a herd of elk approached the road and decided to cross.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Cloer captured video when the herd created a traffic jam by crossing Highway 441 in Cherokee, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cloer&#8217;s footage shows some of the elk running across the road, while others casually walk to reach the other side and graze on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>Elk are native to the area, but populations dwindled due to over-hunting by European settlers in the late 1700s. The National Park Service started to reintrode elk to the region in 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212; Traffic on a North Carolina highway was brought to a standstill when a herd of elk approached the road and decided to cross. Dean Cloer captured video when the herd created a traffic jam by crossing Highway 441 in Cherokee, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Advertisement Cloer&#8217;s footage shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}