{"id":61814,"date":"2026-09-30T21:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-meet-backpack-the-chunky-bear-who-won-fat-bear-week\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:14:45","slug":"watch-meet-backpack-the-chunky-bear-who-won-fat-bear-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/watch-meet-backpack-the-chunky-bear-who-won-fat-bear-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Meet &#8216;Backpack&#8217;, the chunky bear who won Fat Bear Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Backpack has won the annual Fat Bear Week competition after prevailing in what the US National Park Service called a &#8220;battle of size, skill, snack acquisition and strategic loafing&#8221;. The chunky champion narrowly beat Bear 910 by 103,344 votes to 98,253 in the final round of the online contest run by Katmai National Park in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ck8d3vl9mj13o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Read more on &#8216;Backpack&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cqkg07lp9dvlo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backpack has won the annual Fat Bear Week competition after prevailing in what the US National Park Service called a &#8220;battle of size, skill, snack acquisition and strategic loafing&#8221;. The chunky champion narrowly beat Bear 910 by 103,344 votes to 98,253 in the final round of the online contest run by Katmai National Park in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[16926,413,16927,5606,195,1509,145,6048],"class_list":["post-61814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-backpack","tag-bear","tag-chunky","tag-fat","tag-meet","tag-watch","tag-week","tag-won"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61816,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61814\/revisions\/61816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}