{"id":2642,"date":"2013-11-08T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2025-09-28T17:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T17:56:57","slug":"in-ny-adirondacks-young-woman-fights-off-bear-with-a-pocket-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2642","title":{"rendered":"In NY Adirondacks, young woman fights off bear with a pocket knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>YIKES! Some neat pictures with the article.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Three-bears-and-one-tough-hiker-4847473.php\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Three bears and one tough hiker. Woman stabs bruin in jaw as it charges her<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anyone considering messing with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Amy+Stafford%22\">Amy Stafford<\/a> should keep this in mind: she stabbed a bear, and walked away without a&#0160;scratch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Although it is bear hunting season in the Adirondacks, Stafford, 22, and an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/?controllerName=search&amp;action=search&amp;channel=local&amp;search=1&amp;inlineLink=1&amp;query=%22Army+Reservist%22\">Army Reservist<\/a>, didn&#39;t set out to tussle with one. It was a case of self&#0160;defense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&quot;I&#39;m 5-foot-8 inches&quot; and I can handle myself, but I wasn&#39;t looking to fight a bear,&quot; she&#0160;said.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, she certainly can handle situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YIKES! Some neat pictures with the article. Three bears and one tough hiker. Woman stabs bruin in jaw as it charges her Anyone considering messing with Amy Stafford should keep this in mind: she stabbed a bear, and walked away without a&#0160;scratch. Although it is bear hunting season in the Adirondacks, Stafford, 22, and an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}