{"id":755841,"date":"2022-01-18T20:03:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/look-florida-troopers-block-12-foot-alligator-from-trying-to-cross-highway\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T20:03:28","slug":"look-florida-troopers-block-12-foot-alligator-from-trying-to-cross-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/look-florida-troopers-block-12-foot-alligator-from-trying-to-cross-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Florida troopers block 12-foot alligator from trying to cross highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Florida-troopers-block-12-foot-alligator-from-trying-to-cross-highway.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tp_St_emb youtube-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Travel advisory: Troopers are trying to keep this 12 foot from the Interstate 75 travel lanes @ mile marker 78 in Collier County on Alley!<br \/>\nPlease drive cautiously! pic.twitter.com\/EzX3BgQNt6\u2014 FHP SWFL (@FHPSWFL) January 17, 2022<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 18 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> The Florida Highway Patrol said troopers were summoned to the side of a busy highway to prevent a 12-foot alligator from wandering into traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The FHP said troopers stationed in Collier County responded to the side of Interstate 75 at mile marker 78 when drivers reported an approximately 12-foot alligator that appeared to be preparing to attempt to cross the road.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Troopers arrived on the scene and worked to keep the reptile out of the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The FHP tweeted a photo of the gator at the side of the highway and urged drivers in the area to use caution.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel advisory: Troopers are trying to keep this 12 foot from the Interstate 75 travel lanes @ mile marker 78 in Collier County on Alley! Please drive cautiously! pic.twitter.com\/EzX3BgQNt6\u2014 FHP SWFL (@FHPSWFL) January 17, 2022 Jan. 18 (UPI) &#8212; The Florida Highway Patrol said troopers were summoned to the side of a busy highway to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":755842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755841","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\/755841","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=755841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}