{"id":301564,"date":"2014-05-20T02:28:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301564"},"modified":"2014-05-21T02:36:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T07:36:32","slug":"palestine-reopens-upper-lake-alligator-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301564","title":{"rendered":"Palestine Reopens Upper Lake; Alligator Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/alligator2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/alligator2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"alligator2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-301565\" \/><\/a>PALESTINE \u2013 The city of Palestine has reopened the Upper Lake after an 8 to 10 foot alligator was killed and removed from the lake. Because of concern for public safety, the Upper Lake was closed May 1st following reports of sightings of a large alligator. Palestine hired professional nuisance alligator control hunter Jeremy Langford. He is licensed by Texas Parks &#038; Wildlife to remove nuisance alligators. According to a city news release, \u201cThe night of May 16, 2014, Mr. Langford and assistant Joey Dover discovered the alligator in open water. Due to the size of the alligator \u2014 10&#8217;1 \u00bd\u201d \u2014 and the safety of Mr. Langford and Mr. Dover \u2014 lethal removal was necessary.\u201d After inspecting the lake, and no other alligators were found, the lake was reopened on Monday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALESTINE \u2013 The city of Palestine has reopened the Upper Lake after an 8 to 10 foot alligator was killed and removed from the lake. Because of concern for public safety, the Upper Lake was closed May 1st following reports of sightings of a large alligator. Palestine hired professional nuisance alligator control hunter Jeremy Langford. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=301564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Palestine Reopens Upper Lake; Alligator Killed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 03:36:17","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\/301564","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301570,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301564\/revisions\/301570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}