{"id":10185,"date":"2026-08-09T16:32:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=10185"},"modified":"2026-08-09T16:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:32:47","slug":"snake-of-the-week-2026-08-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/snake-of-the-week-2026-08-07.html","title":{"rendered":"Snake of the week 2026-08-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nI was watching the dogs to my left.\r\n

\r\nThen I turned to my right, and about five feet away….\r\n

\r\n\r\n\"[Straight<\/a>\r\n
Straight snake<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nNot all that big, 3 or 4 feet, but a well fed Crotalus horridus<\/em>,\r\ntimber rattlesnake.\r\nEven with the strip down the center back like a canebrake rattlesnake.\r\n

\r\nI like ’em. They eat mice and rats, and I’m allergic to those.\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nPS: Have I mentioned my snake-handling club?","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I was watching the dogs to my left. Then I turned to my right, and about five feet away…. Straight snake Not all that big, 3 or 4 feet, but a well fed Crotalus horridus, timber rattlesnake. Even with the strip down the center back like a canebrake rattlesnake. I like ’em. They eat mice […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[29,6,782],"tags":[3724,784,2770,3,5,2,2760,786,562,785],"class_list":["post-10185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-rattlesnake","tag-canebrake-rattlesnake","tag-crotalus-horridus","tag-dogs","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-rattlesnake-2","tag-reptile","tag-timber-rattlesnake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2Eh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10186,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10185\/revisions\/10186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}