{"id":312,"date":"2011-03-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/corn-snake.html"},"modified":"2011-03-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T12:00:00","slug":"corn-snake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/corn-snake.html","title":{"rendered":"Corn snake"},"content":{"rendered":"Gretchen was very amused to see me do the snake dance.\nThis corn snake was lying in the path at the edge of the field,\nand I almost stepped on it.\nProbably it was sunning itself to get warm.\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s harmless, except to small rodents that live in corn fields.\nElaphe guttata is a constrictor.\nThis one was 3 or 4 feet long.\nThey&#8217;re native to the U.S. southeast\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/Animals\/ReptilesAmphibians\/Facts\/FactSheets\/Cornsnake.cfm\">\nfrom New Jersey to Texas.<\/a>\nI did not know until that day that corn snakes can climb trees.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5526111556\/#\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5526111556\/in\/set-72157626263286950\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5178\/5526111556_e1fa65d38b.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nHere he is stretched out:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5525515263\/in\/set-72157626263286950\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5017\/5525515263_83832d4094.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nPictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 February 2011.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gretchen was very amused to see me do the snake dance. This corn snake was lying in the path at the edge of the field, and I almost stepped on it. Probably it was sunning itself to get warm. It&#8217;s harmless, except to small rodents that live in corn fields. Elaphe guttata is a constrictor. [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,43,196,36,197],"tags":[959,958,3,5,2],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-gardening","category-reptiles","category-silviculture","category-snakes","tag-28-february-2011","tag-corn-snake","tag-georgia","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-52","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","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=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}