{"id":1022862,"date":"2022-03-16T02:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T02:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/16\/look-florida-swim-team-practice-interrupted-by-alligator-in-the-pool\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T02:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T02:20:37","slug":"look-florida-swim-team-practice-interrupted-by-alligator-in-the-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/16\/look-florida-swim-team-practice-interrupted-by-alligator-in-the-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Florida swim team practice interrupted by alligator in the pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Florida-swim-team-practice-interrupted-by-alligator-in-the-pool.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 15 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Florida school&#8217;s swim team practice was delayed when the students discovered the pool was already occupied &#8212; by an alligator.<\/p>\n<p>The Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a Facebook post that deputies responded to Montverde Academy on a report of an alligator crashing the swim team practice and refusing to vacate the pool voluntarily.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The deputies used a safety hook to pull the 3-foot gator closer to the edge of the pool, where it was grabbed by another deputy.<\/p>\n<p>The alligator&#8217;s jaws were secured with electrical tape and the reptile was taken to Lake Apopka, where the tape was removed and &#8220;the gator was released on its own recognizance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries to humans or alligators during the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15 (UPI) &#8212; A Florida school&#8217;s swim team practice was delayed when the students discovered the pool was already occupied &#8212; by an alligator. The Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said in a Facebook post that deputies responded to Montverde Academy on a report of an alligator crashing the swim team practice and refusing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}