{"id":671,"date":"2012-10-09T02:48:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=671"},"modified":"2012-10-09T02:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T02:48:35","slug":"alligators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Alligators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a05.60 miles<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s run was along Robinson Road. \u00a0It is a gravel road used primarily by the county workers and it follows the Tombigbee River.<\/p>\n<p>The section of Robinson Road we ran is in a lower level area~meaning, it is kinda swampy. \u00a0The road itself is dry but the sides of the road have a lot of undergrowth~kinda oozy and dank smelling. \u00a0So, we decided that it would probably be in our best interest to keep an eye open for alligators.<\/p>\n<p>Alligators!?! \u00a0Yup. \u00a0We always keep an eye open for snakes (at least I do, I&#8217;m not so sure if that disturbs my husband or not). \u00a0The Tombigbee River is well known for housing it&#8217;s fair share of alligators and we were running in prime residential area for the lizards.<\/p>\n<p>It really was a beautiful day for running. \u00a0The weather was in the 40&#8217;s, we had a well maintained gravel road on which to run and the trees are turning pretty colors right now~it was perfect! \u00a0There was just that nagging thought&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Can I outrun an alligator?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for all involved in this story, we did not have to find out! \u00a0Not a peep or a hiss from one of those four legged critters. \u00a0Whew!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/imgres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-672\" title=\"Alligator\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/imgres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Run: \u00a05.60 miles Today&#8217;s run was along Robinson Road. \u00a0It is a gravel road used primarily by the county workers and it follows the Tombigbee River. The section of Robinson Road we ran is in a lower level area~meaning, it is kinda swampy. \u00a0The road itself is dry but the sides of the road [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}