{"id":12926,"date":"2017-01-30T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=12926"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:54:13","slug":"natural-resources-staff-rescues-jughead-the-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/01\/30\/natural-resources-staff-rescues-jughead-the-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Resources Staff Rescues &#8220;Jughead&#8221; the Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0is pleased to report that members of its Wildlife and Heritage Service successfully rescued a juvenile male deer Sunday night after it was trapped for more than a week with a plastic snack container over\u00a0its head.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/jughead_1485746583321_7953648_ver1.0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12935\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/jughead_1485746583321_7953648_ver1.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/jughead_1485746583321_7953648_ver1.0.jpg 534w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/jughead_1485746583321_7953648_ver1.0-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>The animal,\u00a0nicknamed &#8220;Jughead,&#8221; was found and later freed in Harford County.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The department&#8217;s Wildlife Response Team spent more than a week combing the brush and woodlots around the Bel Air community looking for the young buck. They eventually identified the normal paths of travel for the \u00a0deer and erected tree-stands to observe his travels in an attempt to intercept him.<\/p>\n<p>The team successfully tranquilized the juvenile male deer, and after confirming it was\u00a0respiring normally, freed it from the container before it was released back into the wild. The deer appeared alert and healthy on its release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is pleased to report that members of its Wildlife and Heritage Service successfully rescued a juvenile male deer Sunday night after it was trapped for more than a week with a plastic snack container over\u00a0its head. The animal,\u00a0nicknamed &#8220;Jughead,&#8221; was found and later freed in Harford County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,13],"tags":[3112,3059,2935],"class_list":["post-12926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-wildlife","tag-bel-air","tag-deer","tag-harford-county"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12926"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12943,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12926\/revisions\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}