{"id":301496,"date":"2026-08-26T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=301496"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:37:21","slug":"a-nosy-polar-bear-and-a-lucky-squirrel-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2026-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=301496","title":{"rendered":"A nosy polar bear and a lucky squirrel: Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The polar bear image taken by Audun Rikardsen was among the &#8216;highly commended&#8217; entries in this year&#8217;s competition&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cg7m5e3mylpo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a> <span class=\"news_item\">Source: BBC News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The polar bear image taken by Audun Rikardsen was among the &#8216;highly commended&#8217; entries in this year&#8217;s competition&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17884],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301496"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=301496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}