{"id":246365,"date":"2020-10-27T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/?p=246365"},"modified":"2020-10-27T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T13:29:20","slug":"man-nibbled-by-alligator-pal-whilst-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/man-nibbled-by-alligator-pal-whilst-on-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Man \u201cNibbled\u201d By Alligator Pal Whilst On Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A man was \u201cnibbled\u201d by an alligator friend he was swimming with in Florida.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_246366\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246366\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246366\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/967FD318-41C2-480C-90C1-CCF637394BA2-300x169.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/967FD318-41C2-480C-90C1-CCF637394BA2-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/967FD318-41C2-480C-90C1-CCF637394BA2-600x338.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/967FD318-41C2-480C-90C1-CCF637394BA2.jpeg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-246366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This picture makes it look worse than it is.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Braje was taking a dip in Miami Lakes when the 13ft gator approached him. He\u2019d met the gator a few times previously, and posted this particular encounter on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;SO, I got nibbled on by a 13ft gator today, lol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thinks just because he&#8217;s bigger than me, that he could bully me!!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Haha no hard feelings though. He was just displaying dominance or maybe even just curious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IF he wanted a bite, I wouldn&#8217;t be on FB right now, lol. He&#8217;s still my buddy &amp; I&#8217;ll be back in with him soon..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments mainly consisted of people commenting on how calm John stayed &#8211; despite an alligator chewing on him &#8211; and the bravery of the guy who stayed in the water with the hungry alligator!<\/p>\n<p>John continued: &#8220;I&#8217;ve had plenty of interaction with him in the past. I think maybe because there were a lot of people around, he felt he needed to display dominance but normally he&#8217;s really chill.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IF he wanted more, he could have got it. That&#8217;s my buddy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can view the video below!<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_42588\"  width=\"1320\" height=\"743\"  data-origwidth=\"1320\" data-origheight=\"743\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SrW_oMbEg5U?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was \u201cnibbled\u201d by an alligator friend he was swimming with in Florida.\u00a0 John Braje was taking a dip in Miami Lakes when the 13ft gator approached him. He\u2019d met the gator a few times previously, and posted this particular encounter on Facebook. He said: &#8220;SO, I got nibbled on by a 13ft gator&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":246366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[633,300,889,98,179,156,1229],"class_list":["post-246365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-canada-news","tag-alligator","tag-animal","tag-animal-news","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246368,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246365\/revisions\/246368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}