{"id":285,"date":"2006-05-09T09:30:30","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=285"},"modified":"2008-06-22T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:19:37","slug":"two-of-the-coolest-pictures-youll-see-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"Two Of The Coolest Pictures You&#8217;ll See This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Garter Snake Eating Frog\" title=\"Garter Snake Eating Frog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/snake1.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>My boss, Paul Stamets, shot these pictures in one of our mushroom grow rooms last Thursday. Jim, a fellow employee, was running around emptying mouse traps when he came across this cool-but-grisly scene in Grow Room 2.<\/p>\n<p>Being an environment of high humidity and relvatively controlled temperature, our grow rooms are naturally host to a largish population of frogs of varying species and size. We welcome their presence, as they help to keep the insect levels down. (Only one customer I know of has ever been enough of a chimp to ask if our mushrooms are contaminated with frog droppings as a result. No, they&#8217;re not. Where do people find the time in their day to <em>worry<\/em> about shit like this? Um, no pun intended. ;-))<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, where conditions are favorable for a given species, predators will also congregate. This two-foot-long garter snake has doubtlessly been cruising the rooms for most of its life, hoping for an opportunity to take down one of these free-range delicacies.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snake Eating A Frog\" title=\"Snake Eating A Frog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/snake2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The ex-frog depicted here is\u2014was\u2014one of our true veterans, a batrachian hulk christened Moses by our previous growroom manager. Sorry Damein, I know you must be heartbroken over this. Ah, well, ashes to ashes, dust to snake poop.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what would seem here to be an impossible task, the garter snake (I think I&#8217;ll call him <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mister_Creosote\">Mister Creosote<\/a>) <em>did<\/em> manage to get Moses all the way down <em>(&#8220;Go down, Moses, wayyyy dowwwwn in snaaaakie belllly&#8230;.&#8221;)<\/em>, though I wasn&#8217;t there for the dessert course.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paul, after dinner Mister Creosote tried to slither out of the grow room, but was so overloaded that he couldn&#8217;t make it over the two-inch door sill.  \ud83d\ude00<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boss, Paul Stamets, shot these pictures in one of our mushroom grow rooms last Thursday. Jim, a fellow employee, was running around emptying mouse traps when he came across this cool-but-grisly scene in Grow Room 2. Being an environment of high humidity and relvatively controlled temperature, our grow rooms are naturally host to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roominations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}