{"id":9910,"date":"2025-10-14T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9910"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:40:10","slug":"garter-snake-2025-10-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/garter-snake-2025-10-09.html","title":{"rendered":"Garter snake 2025-10-09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThis small snake was in the front driveway.\r\n<p>\r\nYou can tell by comparison with the pine straw that the snake is quite small,\r\nmaybe 8 inches long.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Snake with pine straw, sand, and pebbles\" name=\"GS:Snake-with-pine-straw-sand-and-pebbles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-10-09--garter-snake\/20251009_180654.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-10-09--garter-snake\/20251009_180654.jpg\"  alt=\"[Snake with pine straw, sand, and pebbles]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-10-09--garter-snake\/20251009_180654.html\">Snake with pine straw, sand, and pebbles<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nI think it&#8217;s an\r\nEastern Garter Snake, <em>Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis<\/em>.\r\n<p>\r\nWhat do you think?\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This small snake was in the front driveway. You can tell by comparison with the pine straw that the snake is quite small, maybe 8 inches long. Snake with pine straw, sand, and pebbles I think it&#8217;s an Eastern Garter Snake, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis. What do you think? -jsq","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3527,3,23,5,2,2760,3358,747],"class_list":["post-9910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okra-paradise-farms","tag-garter-snake","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-serpent","tag-snake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2zQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910","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=9910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9911,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9910\/revisions\/9911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}