{"id":568,"date":"2009-08-31T09:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/in-the-grass.html"},"modified":"2009-08-31T09:13:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T13:13:25","slug":"in-the-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/in-the-grass.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"Why did the snake cross the road?\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3872451673\/\" title=\"9 rattles by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2595\/3872451673_91c60b462f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"9 rattles\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nTo get out of the way of the car.  Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 29 August 2009, Lowndes County, Georgia.  Click through to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3878368748\/in\/set-72157622069972283\/\">\nthe big picture<\/a> to count the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3877588287\/in\/set-72157622069972283\/\">\n9 rattles<\/a> on this timber rattler.\n<p>\nUpdate: added links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3878368748\/in\/set-72157622069972283\/\">just the snake<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3878368748\/\" title=\"Count the rattles by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3462\/3878368748_1af16a2d3d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"327\" alt=\"Count the rattles\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3877588287\/in\/set-72157622069972283\/\">just the rattles<\/a>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/3877588287\/\" title=\"Just the rattles by faul, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3552\/3877588287_c5fe44ea32_o.jpg\" width=\"162\" height=\"104\" alt=\"Just the rattles\" \/><\/a>\n<p>\nfor those who had trouble finding them. Also, the snake was crossing our driveway to our house, not the public road. We like rattlesnakes.  They eat mice.  We don&#8217;t like mice.  Snake snack on mice?\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why did the snake cross the road? To get out of the way of the car. Pictures by Gretchen Quarterman, 29 August 2009, Lowndes County, Georgia. Click through to the big picture to count the 9 rattles on this timber rattler. Update: added links to just the snake","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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[782,196,197],"tags":[3,2,1861,786,797],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rattlesnake","category-reptiles","category-snakes","tag-georgia","tag-lowndes-county","tag-rattles","tag-rattlesnake-2","tag-timber-rattler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-9a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","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=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}