{"id":445,"date":"2011-04-25T06:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=445"},"modified":"2011-04-25T06:38:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T12:38:04","slug":"the-hazards-of-life-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/the-hazards-of-life-in-florida-445.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Hazards of Life in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

My morning paper informs me:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Alligator finds its way into Florida woman’s bathroom<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A Florida woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom \u2014 a 7-foot alligator.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the gator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Dunbar believes the gator used a doggie door on the back porch to get inside the house. Dunbar lives in Palmetto, which is south of St. Petersburg.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Spring is mating season for alligators and wildlife officials urge people to be extremely cautious, especially around water.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We have had minor run-ins with Florida wildlife. We have had to evict from our pool a large and unhappy turtle and two snakes who had been engaging amorous activity at the edge of the pool and had fallen in.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Although my favorite story is still the one about the women in Naples who had taken her dog for a walk, returned home, and then heard knocking at the door. She looked out the window and saw no one.\u00a0 <\/span>The knocking resumed. She looked down and saw a large alligator hitting the door and asking if Skippy could come out and play. She screamed. The alligator did not go away.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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My morning paper informs me: Alligator finds its way into Florida woman’s bathroom PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A Florida woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom \u2014 a 7-foot alligator. Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the gator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}