{"id":56,"date":"2005-10-15T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T01:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2005-10-18T07:23:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T14:23:08","slug":"alligators-in-the-sewers-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/10\/15\/alligators-in-the-sewers-still\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligators in the Sewers &#8211; Still!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 6-foot long <strong>alligator<\/strong> loose in an urban lake in <strong>Southern California<\/strong>, a hurricane-displaced &#8216;gator wrangler named <strong>T-Bone Quinn<\/strong>, a <strong>dysfunctional swamp buggy<\/strong> and impending <strong>cooler temperatures<\/strong> force a stalemate in a strange game of chess.<\/p>\n<p>This almost sounds like fiction or comedy, but it&#8217;s true. After a resident of nearby <strong>San Pedro, CA<\/strong>, released an alligator he couldn&#8217;t keep into a city lake, three potential reptile trappers have been thwarted in their attempts to capture the elusive &#8216;gator.<\/p>\n<p>The amusing story is in the <strong>Daily Breeze<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/news\/articles\/1792221.html?imw=Y\">T-Bone Quinn throws in the towel in Reggie search<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rooting for Reggie, the &#8216;gator in this one . . . hope he gets safely caught and sent to an alligator retirement community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> 10\/18\/2005: The <strong>Daily Breeze<\/strong> offers an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybreeze.com\/hottopics\/1689546.html\">archive of alligator articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 6-foot long alligator loose in an urban lake in Southern California, a hurricane-displaced &#8216;gator wrangler named T-Bone Quinn, a dysfunctional swamp buggy and impending cooler temperatures force a stalemate in a strange game of chess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}