{"id":1853,"date":"2011-05-12T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2011-09-16T03:12:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T09:12:01","slug":"alligator-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"Alligator watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_1862\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"gallery[Portfolio]\" href=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new_orleans_swamp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1862\" src=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new_orleans_swamp-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"This is where the Louisiana alligators hang out\" title=\"Swamp near New Orleans\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new_orleans_swamp-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pan-am.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/new_orleans_swamp.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swamp near New Orleans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As you might know reptiles are my favorite animals. The bigger the better. So, I didn&#8217;t want to miss the opportunity to see some alligators while I am in New Orleans which is located in the Mississippi river delta and mostly surrounded by swamps. I booked a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.honeyislandswamp.com\">swamp tour<\/a> which gave me the opportunity to share my alligator watching experience with other tourists, families, kids and retired people. How I love those tourist tours&#8230; But it was the only way to see the alligators from close up. Our group went out into a nearby swamp with a boat. The alligators there are quite used to people and the tour guides attract them by feeding them with marshmallows and hotdogs. Who would have thought alligators like marshmallows&#8230; Also interesting: Unlike crocodiles they don&#8217;t eat humans (usually&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-sdzTRTpyNE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might know reptiles are my favorite animals. The bigger the better. So, I didn&#8217;t want to miss the opportunity to see some alligators while I am in New Orleans which is located in the Mississippi river delta and mostly surrounded by swamps. I booked a swamp tour which gave me the opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-articles","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1853"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2765,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1853\/revisions\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pan-am.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}