{"id":10497,"date":"2025-12-05T18:55:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=10497"},"modified":"2025-12-05T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T18:55:58","slug":"feed-the-alligator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=10497","title":{"rendered":"Feed The Alligator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"233\">An elderly Louisiana farmer had a big pond on his land. He\u2019d fixed it up nicely with picnic tables and fruit trees, though he hadn\u2019t visited it in a while.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"235\" data-end=\"327\">One evening, he grabbed a bucket to collect some fruit and headed down to check on the pond.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"329\" data-end=\"550\">As he got closer, he heard laughing. He soon realized a group of young women were swimming in the pond. When they noticed him, they quickly moved to the deeper water and called out, \u201cWe\u2019re not coming out until you leave!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"635\">The old farmer shook his head and said, \u201cI didn\u2019t come down here to bother anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"637\" data-end=\"674\">Then he held up his bucket and added:<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"676\" data-end=\"714\">\u201cI\u2019m just here to feed the alligator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"767\">Let\u2019s just say the pond cleared out <em data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"758\">very<\/em> quickly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"801\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Some old folks still think fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; An elderly Louisiana farmer had a big pond on his land. He\u2019d fixed it up nicely with picnic tables and fruit trees, though he hadn\u2019t visited it in a while. One evening, he grabbed a bucket to collect some fruit and headed down to check on the pond. As he got closer, he heard &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10499,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10497\/revisions\/10499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}