{"id":33352,"date":"2014-10-28T20:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T00:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=33352"},"modified":"2014-10-28T20:12:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T00:12:46","slug":"gator-in-storm-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/10\/gator-in-storm-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Gator In Storm Drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-33353\" title=\"gator\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gator-300x229.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gator-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gator.png 457w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A member of the FWC freed a stuck alligator late Tuesday after it migrated from a canal into a storm drain in Lehigh Acres. \u00a0The gator then got stuck inside the drain, unable to move back out.<\/p>\n<p>It created quite a neighborhood attraction on Scenic Drive in the Country Club Estates area of Lehigh Acres. People dropped by all day to check out the storm drain and hissing gator.<\/p>\n<p>Children spotted the caged creature on Monday when they went to retrieve a ball.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Landscapers, electrical workers and neighbors have stopped by to get a peak.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or FWC has an alligator nuisance hotline. They were unable to find a trapper so an officer was sent in to grab the scaly beast.<\/p>\n<p>The gator was irritated at the attention and hissed frequently. Tall tales are surely to be told this close to Halloween, the gator and the drain.<\/p>\n<p>If a trapper had responded, the gator would have been &#8220;harvested&#8221; instead, the excitement lives on and the wandering gator will be released in a lake nearby. \u00a0That way, the legend and the gator live on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the FWC freed a stuck alligator late Tuesday after it migrated from a canal into a storm drain in Lehigh Acres. \u00a0The gator then got stuck inside&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}