{"id":5175,"date":"2007-12-11T17:12:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2007-12-11T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:12:26","slug":"5-year-old-boy-kills-bear-bear-nation-beyond-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/5-year-old-boy-kills-bear-bear-nation-beyond-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Year Old Boy Kills Bear. Bear Nation Beyond Upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Tre Merritt, a descendant of Davy Crockett, was hunting with his grandfather Mike Merritt when a black bear happened upon their stand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett,&#8221; Mike Merritt said. &#8220;And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/outdoors\/hunting\/news\/story?id=3150157\" class=\"external external_icon\">And Tre is five and really killed a bear<\/a>. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mike Merritt was in the stand at the time but said Tre did it all by himself.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been stuck in the woods 7 days and need food, the zombie apocalypse has finally come, or you&#8217;re on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.  Those are the only reasons a 5 year old child should be walking the woods with a loaded weapon.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll bet you dollars to donuts Davy Crockett didn&#8217;t have a high powered 21st century rifle when he &#8220;killed&#8221; his bear.<\/p>\n<p>(via medicmike, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/outdoors\/hunting\/news\/story?id=3150157\" class=\"external external_icon\">espn outdoors<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tre Merritt, a descendant of Davy Crockett, was hunting with his grandfather Mike Merritt when a black bear happened upon their stand. &#8220;His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett,&#8221; Mike Merritt said. &#8220;And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five and really killed a bear. I really doubt if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","tag-quotables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}