{"id":275,"date":"2022-01-05T05:39:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2022-01-05T05:39:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T05:39:13","slug":"we-be-so-jon-snow-understanding-snakes-with-gerry-martin-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/05\/we-be-so-jon-snow-understanding-snakes-with-gerry-martin-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"We be so Jon Snow: Understanding snakes with Gerry Martin (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-player-9773561\"><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/1866692\/9773561-we-be-so-jon-snow-understanding-snakes-with-gerry-martin-part-1.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-9773561&#038;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Mohan takes a trip to Hunsur (near Mysore, Karnataka) to meet world-renowned snake man Gerry Martin. In his cosy office, surrounded by tanks and tanks of snakes, Gerry unravels the mysterious world of serpents coil by marvellous coil.<br>Snake origin stories, snake lengths (sorry to break it to ya, but the length of your\u2026SNAKE is irrelevant), venom and fangs, the BIG 4, kissing king cobras , what NOT to do around snakes and why we\u2019d have no food if snakes were to disappear\u2026<br>This is the first instalment of a two-part story on these enigmatic creatures, told in Gerry\u2019s inimitable, no-nonsense, giggle-inducing style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Mohan takes a trip to Hunsur (near Mysore, Karnataka) to meet world-renowned snake man Gerry Martin. In his cosy office, surrounded by tanks and tanks of snakes, Gerry unravels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigressontuktuk.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}