{"id":5375,"date":"2018-12-22T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2018-12-22T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T15:26:45","slug":"snake-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2018\/12\/22\/snake-in-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake in the house!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully Zweli, the farm manager, was nearby when a snake was discovered curled up in our house!\u00a0 Roy was down at the nursery tunnel, unable to move very fast with his sore hip.\u00a0 Zweli couldn&#8217;t hurt a fly, so he carefully picked it up (it&#8217;s non-poisonous) and let it go down the hill.\u00a0 Never would that happen in CAR!\u00a0 Any snake or even anything resembling a snake, like a millipede, gets obliterated immediately, regardless of its venom or lack thereof.<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5384\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake-in-the-house.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5383\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake-in-the-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake-in-the-house.jpg 428w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-snake-in-the-house-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-Removing-the-snake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5382\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-Removing-the-snake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-Removing-the-snake.jpg 514w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/12\/blog-Removing-the-snake-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=5375&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully Zweli, the farm manager, was nearby when a snake was discovered curled up in our house!\u00a0 Roy was down at the nursery tunnel, unable to move very fast with his sore hip.\u00a0 Zweli couldn&#8217;t hurt a fly, so he &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2018\/12\/22\/snake-in-the-house\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Snake in the house! 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