{"id":35295,"date":"2026-06-03T16:44:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35295"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:44:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:44:41","slug":"snakes-why-did-it-have-to-be-snakes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/03\/snakes-why-did-it-have-to-be-snakes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes.  Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Because Patrice Lewis said so.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was catching up on Rural Revolution, and Mrs. Lewis posted about shedding snakes at her homestead (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rural-revolution.com\/2026\/05\/spring-snakes.html\" target=\"_new\">Spring Snakes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rural-revolution.com\/2026\/06\/yep-shedding.html\" target=\"_new\">Yep, Shedding<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>And minutes later, I stepped into my driveway and found a snakeskin of our own.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/snakeskin2026.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m old school and crawl around in my garden to pull weeds, you&#8217;d better believe I&#8217;m talking to myself to make sure they hear me coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Patrice Lewis said so. I was catching up on Rural Revolution, and Mrs. Lewis posted about shedding snakes at her homestead (Spring Snakes and Yep, Shedding). And minutes later, I stepped into my driveway and found a snakeskin of our own. As I&#8217;m old school and crawl around in my garden to pull weeds, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35296,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35295\/revisions\/35296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}