{"id":1024,"date":"2010-09-19T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:33:05","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:33:05","slug":"how-to-relocate-a-rattler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"How to Relocate a Rattler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1027\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Almost ran over a rattlesnake yesterday on my bicycle, and it made me think of favorite rattlesnake stories.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the best came in the Spring of 2005. Clark, Chris and I were on a biking trip along the Caprock Canyon Trailway near Quitaque when we stopped at an Allsup&#8217;s. A clerk named Jackie told the story.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that Jackie&#8217;s brother, a deputy sheriff, was called to Caprock Canyons State Park to help a camper being harassed by a Diamondback.<\/p>\n<p>This West Texas lawman got to the campsite, found the rattler coiled and rattling, drew his Colt Government Model .45 and ended the threat. Shortly, a park ranger arrived, and, looking at the dead snake, scolded the peace officer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the Parks and Wildlife Department, we don&#8217;t kill rattlers,&#8221; said the ranger. &#8220;In fact, it&#8217;s illegal to kill a snake in the park. Instead we relocate them.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To which Jackie&#8217;s brother responded\u2014Jackie imitated the thick Texas drawl\u2014&#8221;Weeel, I relocated this one fer ya. I relocated his head over yonder (as he pointed), and the rest of him over yonder.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost ran over a rattlesnake yesterday on my bicycle, and it made me think of favorite rattlesnake stories. Maybe the best came in the Spring of 2005. Clark, Chris and I were on a biking trip along the Caprock Canyon Trailway near Quitaque when we stopped at an Allsup&#8217;s. A clerk named Jackie told the [&hellip;]<\/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,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}