{"id":23092,"date":"2024-10-09T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23092"},"modified":"2024-10-09T15:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T15:13:27","slug":"the-snake-incident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23092","title":{"rendered":"The Snake Incident."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Snake Incident, WRUNG OUT A SNAKE THINKING IT WAS MY FROCK. I grew up in a semi-rural town in West Bengal, India, surrounded by trees and ponds. We had no swimming pools, so everyone learned to swim in a pond or the Ganges, often under the watchful eye of another child. A neighbor taught about ten of us kids how to swim, and we would visit the pond daily to splash around while my mom, ever paranoid about water, kept a watchful eye from the sidelines. One day, after a long swim\u2026 See more.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"521\" height=\"848\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-362.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-362.png 521w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-362-184x300.png 184w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I grew up in a semi-rural town in West Bengal, India, surrounded by trees and ponds. We had no swimming pools, so everyone learned to swim in a pond or the Ganges, often under the watchful eye of another child. A neighbor taught about ten of us kids how to swim, and we would visit the pond daily to splash around while my mom, ever paranoid about water, kept a watchful eye from the sidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-363.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-363.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-363-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-363-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-363-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, after a long swim and some playful splashing, we were sitting on the lowest steps of the pond with our legs in the water. I was chatting with a friend and decided to wring out the bottom of my frock. I bunched up the fabric and started wringing it out, all while my mind wandered. I noticed the fabric felt unusually velvety and thought it strange for my mom to choose such a dress for swimming. I didn&#8217;t have any velvet dresses, and my dad hated velvety fabrics. I wondered if it was my friend&#8217;s frock, but it seemed odd for her to wear velvet to a pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-364.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-364.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-364-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-364-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-364-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Curiosity got the better of me, and I looked down. To my horror, I realized I wasn\u2019t wringing out a frock but a snake, its mouth open and speckled yellow. I let out a loud scream, threw the snake back into the water, and ran away in a panic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later, I learned from Discovery that I had been holding the snake correctly, with my hands behind its neck, and that it wasn&#8217;t poisonous. Still, it\u2019s a fun story to share, especially since I usually avoid touching animals like dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23087\" title=\"\">also read&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Snake Incident, WRUNG OUT A SNAKE THINKING IT WAS MY FROCK. I grew up in a semi-rural town in West Bengal, India, surrounded by trees and&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23096,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23092\/revisions\/23096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}