{"id":2903,"date":"2026-07-06T19:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T02:44:06","slug":"alligator-basking-on-a-log-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/crocodylia\/alligator-basking-on-a-log-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator Basking on a Log in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This little <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/category\/crocodylia\/alligatoridae\/alligator\/mississippiensis\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"717\">American Alligator<\/a> didn&#8217;t care much about my presence as it spent the morning lounging. Most, upon any kind of approach, slip silently away. Growing up in the West, I rarely miss an opportunity to take a picture of one when I can. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9163-Edit-1200x850.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9163-Edit-1200x850.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9163-Edit-752x533.jpg 752w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9163-Edit-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9163-Edit-1536x1089.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alligator-mississippiensis-_9163-Edit-2048x1451.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This little American Alligator didn&#8217;t care much about my presence as it spent the morning lounging. Most, upon any kind of approach, slip silently away. Growing up in the West, I rarely miss an opportunity to take a picture of one when I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716,664,663,717],"tags":[236,362],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alligator","category-alligatoridae","category-crocodylia","category-mississippiensis","tag-basking","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/fieldherper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}