{"id":6686,"date":"2015-05-15T19:34:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T23:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2015-05-15T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T23:59:58","slug":"blacksnakes-in-flagrante-delicto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6686","title":{"rendered":"Blacksnakes, in <em>flagrante delicto<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to actually post these photos directly to the blog, because I think many people will find them frightening or disgusting, especially those who have a phobia of snakes. So, instead, below are links that you can click on if you really want to see the photos.<\/p>\n<p>While doing chicken chores this afternoon, the lower bodies of two blacksnakes were hanging down through the trap door in the chickens&#8217; two-level chicken house. I ran and grabbed the camera, and the snakes were still at it when I came back. I am fairly snake phobic myself, but I&#8217;m becoming less so, as I accept the fact that snakes are an important part of the local ecology, and as I get used to seeing them. I&#8217;ve gotten pretty brave, as you can see just because I took these photos (with a 70mm lens). These X-rated photos shed a lot of light on snake anatomy and behavior.<\/p>\n<p><em>Trigger alert! Do not view these photos if you have a phobia of snakes. These photos are rated X.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/snake-1.jpg\">Photo 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/snake-2.jpg\">Photo 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to actually post these photos directly to the blog, because I think many people will find them frightening or disgusting, especially those who have a phobia of snakes. So, instead, below are links that you can click on if you really want to see the photos. While doing chicken chores this afternoon, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blacksnakes, in <em>flagrante delicto<\/em>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[29,30],"class_list":["post-6686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-land","tag-how-do-snakes-do-it","tag-snakes-having-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686","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=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6696,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions\/6696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}