{"id":48520,"date":"2021-05-01T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-01T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=48520"},"modified":"2021-05-01T17:29:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T21:29:09","slug":"gator-stops-traffic-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/05\/gator-stops-traffic-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Gator stops traffic in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An Alligator was caught on camera crossing busy Lee Boulevard around 6 p.m. near 1st Street W in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lehigh Acres Fire Department responded to the gator crossing and caught the reptile on camera stopping traffic as it crossed over Lee Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only in Florida! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gator?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gator<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trafficjam?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#trafficjam<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QmPUFbSfOU\">pic.twitter.com\/QmPUFbSfOU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District (@LehighAcresFD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LehighAcresFD\/status\/1387568564304027655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) confirmed they received reports of the gator blocking traffic near the intersection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A nuisance alligator trapper was sent to assist in getting the alligator off of the roadway, FWC said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Alligator was caught on camera crossing busy Lee Boulevard around 6 p.m. near 1st Street W in Lehigh Acres. The Lehigh Acres Fire Department responded to the gator crossing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48520"}],"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=48520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}