{"id":1508890,"date":"2026-05-21T13:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1508890"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:13:44","slug":"over-9-foot-long-alligator-caught-in-jasper-county-after-blocking-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1508890","title":{"rendered":"Over 9-foot-long alligator caught in Jasper County after blocking traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JASPER COUNTY &#8211; No investi-gator needed for this capture. In Jasper County, a 9-and-a-half-foot alligator was captured after stalling traffic on 1013 West Wednesday. According to our news partner KETK, Jasper County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies can add \u201calligator catchers\u201d to their list of accolades after successfully removing the alligator from the road.  After being captured by deputies, the alligator was handed over to Texas Game Wardens and was safely relocated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JASPER COUNTY &#8211; No investi-gator needed for this capture. In Jasper County, a 9-and-a-half-foot alligator was captured after stalling traffic on 1013 West Wednesday. According to our news partner KETK, Jasper County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies can add \u201calligator catchers\u201d to their list of accolades after successfully removing the alligator from the road. After being captured &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1508890\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Over 9-foot-long alligator caught in Jasper County after blocking traffic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news-archive"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 00:53:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508890"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509356,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508890\/revisions\/1509356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}