{"id":3543,"date":"2011-09-06T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3543"},"modified":"2011-09-06T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T21:48:31","slug":"do-snakes-drink-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3543","title":{"rendered":"Do snakes drink water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/snake-drinking-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/snake-drinking-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"snake-drinking-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3544\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I watched this snake, it appeared to me that it was lapping water droplets, like a cat, from the wet grass. It wasn&#8217;t just flicking its little red tongue. It was flicking it at the grass. I asked a friend who has kept snakes as pets if they lap water. He said no, that snakes get most of their water from their food.<\/p>\n<p>I remain unsatisfied by that answer. It sure did look like it was lapping water like a cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I watched this snake, it appeared to me that it was lapping water droplets, like a cat, from the wet grass. It wasn&#8217;t just flicking its little red tongue. It was flicking it at the grass. I asked a friend who has kept snakes as pets if they lap water. He said no, that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do snakes drink water?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}