{"id":44741,"date":"2025-08-04T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:22:08","slug":"florida-officer-pulls-alligator-from-pool-with-bare-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44741\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officer pulls alligator from pool with bare hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A feisty alligator was rescued from a swimming pool by a police officer in St Augustine, Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Bodycam footage shows the police officer calmly reach into the water, using just his bare hands, to wrangle the &#8220;super mad&#8221; animal onto the poolside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The residents were in awe of Deputy Richardson&#8217;s confident handling of the creature. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">St Johns County Sheriff&#8217;s Office say the gator was &#8220;safely relocated to a nearby pond&#8221;, after taking it there in the back of a police car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A feisty alligator was rescued from a swimming pool by a police officer in St Augustine, Florida. Bodycam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-44741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}