{"id":598,"date":"2017-05-27T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T12:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2017-05-27T08:07:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T12:07:24","slug":"two-south-carolina-men-arrested-forcing-alligator-drink-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/27\/two-south-carolina-men-arrested-forcing-alligator-drink-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"Two South Carolina Men Arrested for Forcing Alligator to Drink Beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in; line-height: 18.0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #222222;\">Zachary Lloyd Brown 21, and Joseph Andrew Floyd Jr., 20 of Jasper County are facing harassment charges after pictures surfaced on social media.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in; line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #222222;\">The men admitted to picking up the juvenile alligator and forcing it to drink beer, and later releasing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: .25in; line-height: 18.0pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; color: #222222;\">Alligators are protected under state law and the men are facing a $300 fine, along with the misdemeanor charge of harassing wildlife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zachary Lloyd Brown 21, and Joseph Andrew Floyd Jr., 20 of Jasper County are facing harassment charges after pictures surfaced on social media.\u00a0 The men admitted to picking up the juvenile alligator and forcing it to drink beer, and later releasing it. Alligators are protected under state law and the men are facing a $300 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[119],"tags":[244,245,246,105,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecolumbiaobserver.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}