{"id":17298,"date":"2009-07-24T11:25:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17298"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:25:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T18:25:48","slug":"surfing-misc-surfing-gator-taken-to-holly-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=17298","title":{"rendered":"Surfing Misc &#8211; Surfing gator taken to Holly Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Topsail Beach | An alligator spotted in the surf at Topsail Beach on Wednesday was captured overnight by members of the town police and volunteer fire departments. About 10 people from the two departments restrained the animal after it was spotted by a police officer at 4 a.m., said Police Chief Sam Gervase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;I taped his mouth shut once they got him restrained,&#8221; Chief Gervase said, adding that neither the animal nor any of the officers were injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Officials kept the 6-foot alligator until\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20090723\/ARTICLES\/907234002?Title=Surfing-gator-taken-to-Holly-Shelter\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; picture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topsail Beach | An alligator spotted in the surf at Topsail Beach on Wednesday was captured overnight by members of the town police and volunteer fire departments. About 10 people from the two departments restrained the animal after it was spotted by a police officer at 4 a.m., said Police Chief Sam Gervase. &#8220;I taped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17299,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions\/17299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}