{"id":530321,"date":"2016-08-31T02:59:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T07:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=530321"},"modified":"2016-09-01T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T08:19:12","slug":"believed-python-perplexing-maine-city-actually-an-anaconda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=530321","title":{"rendered":"Believed Python Perplexing Maine City Actually an Anaconda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/uttyler-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/uttyler-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"uttyler\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-530322\" \/><\/a>WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) &#8211; Wessie P. Thon might actually be Wessie A. Conda. A Texas scientist who ran tests on a large snake skin found in the Maine city of Westbrook says Tuesday the tests came back as &#8220;100 percent from anaconda.&#8221; A big snake caused a stir in Maine when it was seen this summer eating a beaver along a riverbank. The discovery of a 10-foot snakeskin this month indicates it&#8217;s still lurking locally. Locals dubbed it Wessie. That spawned a parody Twitter account called Wessie P. Thon. University of Texas at Tyler biologist John Placyk performed the skin test. He says Wessie&#8217;s behavior corresponds with that of an anaconda. He&#8217;s says it&#8217;s possibly an escaped pet.  The Wessie Twitter account tweeted Tuesday that the news was causing &#8220;a mid-life crisis&#8221; for the reptile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) &#8211; Wessie P. Thon might actually be Wessie A. Conda. A Texas scientist who ran tests on a large snake skin found in the Maine city of Westbrook says Tuesday the tests came back as &#8220;100 percent from anaconda.&#8221; A big snake caused a stir in Maine when it was seen this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=530321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Believed Python Perplexing Maine City Actually an Anaconda<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":530322,"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-530321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:24:55","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\/530321","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=530321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530323,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530321\/revisions\/530323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/530322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}