{"id":272384,"date":"2026-05-15T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272384\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:55:11","slug":"welcome-to-florida-alligators-stroll-through-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/272384\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Welcome to Florida&#8217;: Alligators Stroll Through Golf Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two alligators were spotted casually walking out of a pond and across a golf course near Tampa in late April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage captured by Michael Lampe shows one alligator walking slowly across the TPC Tampa Bay golf course in Cheval, Florida, on Friday, April 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWelcome to Florida,\u201d Lampe said. \u201cWe are trying to hit our balls, and this f***ing monster is walking right across the green.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another gator could be seen hastily following after, then stopping right in front of Lampe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAll right, you need to get out of the way, buddy,\u201d Lampe could be heard saying to the second gator. Credit: Michael Lampe via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two alligators were spotted casually walking out of a pond and across a golf course near Tampa in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116536,28,30,29,1177,116535,116537],"class_list":["post-272384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cheval","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-golf-course","tag-michael-lampe","tag-tpc-tampa-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272384","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=272384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}