{"id":542,"date":"2008-04-23T22:44:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T02:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=542"},"modified":"2008-04-23T22:44:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T02:44:46","slug":"first-snake-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"First snake of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 19, Arlene and I went for a walk once around Cold Spring park. On a trail off the main loop, I heard a rustling in the leaves that for some reason sounded more like a snake slithering away than like a chipmunk jumping away. I looked carefully, and, sure enough, there was a garter snake under the next bush. I was very proud of myself for identifying the sound properly. Now I have to keep a close eye on Cutler Pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 19, Arlene and I went for a walk once around Cold Spring park. On a trail off the main loop, I heard a rustling in the leaves that for some reason sounded more like a snake slithering away than like a chipmunk jumping away. I looked carefully, and, sure enough, there was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First snake of year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}