{"id":702786,"date":"2010-03-27T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2010-03-27T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T21:21:10","slug":"surviving-a-snakebite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/702786","title":{"rendered":"Surviving a Snakebite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>W.C. Fields once said, &#8220;Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a snake.&#8221;\u00a0Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?page_id=2731\">more sensible advice<\/a> from the remarkable\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Thea-White-Witch-Litschka-Koen-Of-Swaziland\/178188026225?v=wall\">Thea Litschka-Koen<\/a>, who lives in Swaziland and saves both mambas from people and people from mambas (find out more about her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/nature\/episodes\/black-mamba\/snake-handler-thea-litschka-koen-answers-your-questions\/5331\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/womanshour\/01\/2009_46_wed.shtml\">here<\/a>).\u00a0The tips are taken from an article Litschka-Koen wrote for\u00a0<em>BBC Knowledge<\/em> magazine and are used with permission. The article is now filed under <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?page_id=1582\">Resources for Mamba Point<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W.C. Fields once said, &#8220;Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore, always carry a snake.&#8221;\u00a0Here is more sensible advice from the remarkable\u00a0Thea Litschka-Koen, who lives in Swaziland and saves both mambas from people and people from mambas (find out more about her here and here).\u00a0The tips are taken from an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WPg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}