{"id":223428,"date":"2026-04-08T13:53:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223428\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:53:33","slug":"just-chillin-alligator-spotted-outside-hillsborough-county-supervisor-of-elections-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223428\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Just chillin&#8221;: Alligator spotted outside Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Another day in Florida,&#8221; HCSO wrote.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 An alligator was a few weeks too late to cast his ballot after he was spotted outside the Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections office.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office responded to a call of a gator \u00a0\u201cjust chillin\u2019, layin\u2019 in the grass,\u201d outside the office Tuesday morning in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>A licensed trapper was able to safely remove the reptile and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another day in Florida,&#8221; HCSO wrote. &#8220;The soggy weather must have brought out the wildlife on Tuesday morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/a5796731-3ff8-4574-b818-09a934b9bcbf_1140x641.jpg\"  alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Another day in Florida,&#8221; HCSO wrote. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 An alligator was a few weeks too late to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-223428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}