{"id":357790,"date":"2026-07-01T21:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357790\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:28:07","slug":"new-photos-confirm-gracie-the-giraffe-in-fredericksburg-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357790\/","title":{"rendered":"New photos confirm Gracie the giraffe in Fredericksburg, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICKSBURG, Texas \u2014 New photos of Gracie, the escaped giraffe from Cedar Hollow Ranch near Leakey, have been released by her vet in Fredericksburg. <\/p>\n<p>Gracie was located Friday morning after a helicopter crew spotted her around 7:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson said Gracie was difficult to find because of the rugged terrain and dense vegetation in the Hill Country.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/news4sanantonio.com\/news\/local\/gracie-the-giraffe-found-safely-returned-to-cedar-hollow-ranch-escaped-giraffe-climbing-a-steep-unfenced-rock-slab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gracie the giraffe safely returned to Cedar Hollow Ranch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trail camera southwest of the ranch helped narrow the search area before ranch manager Vick Jones and pilot Jeff Hill of Concho Aviation spotted her from the air.<\/p>\n<p>Jones said Gracie escaped by climbing a steep, unfenced rock slab on the property. He said the ranch plans to install fencing along that section to prevent another escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREDERICKSBURG, Texas \u2014 New photos of Gracie, the escaped giraffe from Cedar Hollow Ranch near Leakey, have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-357790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}