{"id":8735,"date":"2016-08-07T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8735"},"modified":"2016-08-07T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:43:32","slug":"the-penalty-for-stealing-eggs-move-down-to-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8735","title":{"rendered":"The penalty for stealing eggs: Move down to the river"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"966\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-1.jpg\" alt=\"S-snake-1\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-1-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-1-768x742.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every summer, black snakes stake out the territory near the chicken house and steal eggs. When Ken is here, they don&#8217;t get away with it. This snake was the second egg-stealing snake that Ken has caught this summer and moved to the river. He catches &#8217;em, puts &#8217;em in a bucket, and releases them down near the Dan River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"978\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-2.jpg\" alt=\"S-snake-2\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-2-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-2-768x751.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"831\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-3.jpg\" alt=\"S-snake-3\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-3-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-3-768x638.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1135\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-4.jpg\" alt=\"S-snake-4\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-4-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-4-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/S-snake-4-902x1024.jpg 902w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every summer, black snakes stake out the territory near the chicken house and steal eggs. When Ken is here, they don&#8217;t get away with it. This snake was the second egg-stealing snake that Ken has caught this summer and moved to the river. He catches &#8217;em, puts &#8217;em in a bucket, and releases them down &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8735\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The penalty for stealing eggs: Move down to the river&#8221;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-8735","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\/8735","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=8735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8741,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8735\/revisions\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}