{"id":277705,"date":"2026-05-20T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T05:51:09","slug":"alligator-lumbers-across-florida-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/277705\/","title":{"rendered":"Alligator Lumbers Across Florida Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An alligator was spotted walking across a beach in Venice, Florida, recent footage shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage taken by Ross Stepanek shows the alligator slowly walking across the beach before inspecting the carcass of a dead fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Speaking to Storyful, Stepanek said he and his wife were enjoying a sunset on the beach when they spotted the reptile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stepanek <a data-ylk=\"slk:previously went viral;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1228779022596938\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">previously went viral<\/a> when he stumbled across a bobcat in pursuit of a rabbit on a beach in Venice. Credit: Ross Stepanek via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alligator was spotted walking across a beach in Venice, Florida, recent footage shows. Footage taken by Ross&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,71770,118544,118545,17556],"class_list":["post-277705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-footage-shows","tag-ross-stepanek","tag-stepanek","tag-venice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277705","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=277705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}