{"id":651095,"date":"2026-05-18T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651095\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:38:08","slug":"gator-found-under-car-at-jekyll-island-hotel-wsb-tv-channel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651095\/","title":{"rendered":"Gator found under car at Jekyll Island hotel &#8211; WSB-TV Channel 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. \u2014 Visitors at a Jekyll Island hotel got a big surprise when a gator was found hanging out underneath a car. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Georgia Department of Public Safety said troopers were called to the hotel on Saturday morning when the 10\u201311-foot gator was spotted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">GSP said the gator was eventually relocated to a pond by wildlife officials. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cCrowd control, lifting assistance, and unexpected reptile wrangling services were provided by GSP free of charge,\u201d GSP said in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. \u2014 Visitors at a Jekyll Island hotel got a big surprise when a gator was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[30971,280850,6204,32664,79,201,32142],"class_list":["post-651095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-gator","tag-georgia-department-of-public-safety","tag-hotel","tag-jekyll-island","tag-science","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-officials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}