{"id":343612,"date":"2026-07-17T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343612\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:51:08","slug":"ever-wonder-what-its-like-to-go-python-hunting-in-the-florida-everglades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343612\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wonder what it&#8217;s like to go python hunting in the Florida Everglades?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p>Published:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 coHFxg kVVZcY\">\n<p>We spent the night deep in the Florida Everglades alongside hunters competing in the state&#8217;s annual Python Challenge\u2014and discovered just how tough it is to find one of these invasive snakes.<\/p>\n<p>From spotlighting dark roads and dodging relentless mosquitoes to close encounters with alligators and other wildlife, this wasn&#8217;t just a snake hunt\u2014it was a true Everglades adventure. And despite spending hours in prime python territory, we came home empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa5 Watch as Matt Austin goes behind the scenes with the surprising people dedicated to protecting Florida&#8217;s ecosystem\u2014one snake at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Published:\u00a0July 17, 2026 at 12:31 PM We spent the night deep in the Florida Everglades alongside hunters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140895,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-343612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-ever-wonder-what-its-like-to-go-python-hunting-in-the-florida-everglades","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343612","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=343612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}