{"id":46084,"date":"2016-04-05T08:22:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T06:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=46084"},"modified":"2016-04-05T08:23:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T06:23:17","slug":"snake-in-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2016\/04\/05\/snake-in-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake in pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aida Willemse, one of the coaches that accompanied hockey players on the tour, said that they went for a game drive the Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Game rangers spotted the <a href=\"http:\/\/slanghanteerder\" target=\"_blank\">massive snake<\/a> whilst they were driving around in the reserve. A <a href=\"http:\/\/slanghanteerder\" target=\"_blank\">snake handler<\/a> was called in after realising that all is not well with the giant reptile.<\/p>\n<p>The snake was transported back to camp in a separate vehicle where rangers threw it in the swimming pool to try and establish what type of injury it had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA piece of its body, near the tail part, kept on popping up on the water surface and did not work together with the rest of the snakes body. A ranger told me that he suspects the snake has a broken rib or two,\u201d said Mrs Willemse.<\/p>\n<p>The snake was taken to a reptile park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/46070\/slang-sorg-vir-opwinding-tydens-sporttoer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Afrikaans version.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive snake, estimated to be nearly five metres long, caused a ssssstir during the Technical High Shool\u2019s hockey tour at Camp Discovery in the outskirts of Pretoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2844,"featured_media":46071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Jana Boshoff","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1049,1992,4022,2828,2258,1088],"class_list":["post-46084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-danger","tag-gevaar","tag-inyonga","tag-slang","tag-snake","tag-warning"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["danger","gevaar","Inyonga","Slang","snake","warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}