{"id":71,"date":"2013-10-19T02:14:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T07:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=71"},"modified":"2013-10-19T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T07:14:17","slug":"j-m-alexander-strikes-snake-1880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/j-m-alexander-strikes-snake-1880\/","title":{"rendered":"J.M. ALEXANDER Strikes Snake (1880)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> A Copper-head&#8217;s Fatal Poison<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mr. J. M. ALEXANDER,<\/strong> of Steel Creek, was in his corn crib last Wednesday, and picked up an ear of corn to kill what he conceived to be a rat whose body was partially exposed to his view. \u00a0He struck at it and the head of a copper head snake projected from the corn, and almost before he knew it, the reptiles fangs were fastened in his fore-finger. \u00a0He hurried to the house and barely succeeded in getting within doors before he became blinded from the effects of the poison and perfectly helpless. \u00a0His wife poured whisky into him, as much as his system would hold, and summoned medical assistance. \u00a0The bite was cauterized, and at last accounts <strong>Mr. ALEXANDER<\/strong> was slowly improving. &#8212;\u00a0<em>Charlotte Observer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Raleigh News and Observer. 14 Sep 1880. pg. 2.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: A Copper-head&#8217;s Fatal Poison Mr. J. M. ALEXANDER, of Steel Creek, was in his corn crib last Wednesday, and picked up an ear of corn to kill what he conceived to be a rat whose body was partially exposed to his view. \u00a0He struck at it and the head of a copper head snake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mecklenburg","tag-alexander-j-m"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-19","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}