{"id":13122,"date":"2016-02-25T03:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wrdprs\/?p=13122"},"modified":"2015-12-30T22:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T05:34:04","slug":"pic-of-the-week-february-26-2016-a-potpouri-of-gators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/pic-of-the-week-february-26-2016-a-potpouri-of-gators\/","title":{"rendered":"“Pic of the Week”, February 26, 2016: A Potpouri of Gators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alligators fascinate and repel me.\u00a0 They’re amazingly graceful in the water, powerful and agile, and\u00a0are obviously highly successful predators.\u00a0\u00a0But it’s their predatory aspect I find repelling.\u00a0 When one of them turns its soulless eyes on you, it feels as though you’re being sized up for dinner.\u00a0 I’m reminded of the classic Gary Larson “FarSide” cartoon.\u00a0 Two crocs with bloated bellies are lying on a riverbank, a broken canoe beside them.\u00a0 One croc tells the other (and I’m paraphrasing) — “That was incredible.\u00a0 No scales, no horns,\u00a0 no fur — just soft and pink!”\u00a0 We humans are those soft pink treats they seem to desire.<\/p>\n

Alligators are quite photogenic.\u00a0 Take a look at these shots from Orlando’s fun “Gatorland” park:<\/p>\n

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Alligators fascinate and repel me.\u00a0 They’re amazingly graceful in the water, powerful and agile, and\u00a0are obviously highly successful predators.\u00a0\u00a0But it’s their predatory aspect I find repelling.\u00a0 When one of them turns its soulless eyes on you, it feels as though … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1,433,12,69,21],"tags":[527,908,909,923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14014,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions\/14014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}