{"id":558,"date":"2011-11-04T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/okinawa.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2011-11-04T15:49:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T15:49:13","slug":"largest-habu-captured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/newsflash\/largest-habu-captured","title":{"rendered":"Largest &#8220;Habu&#8221; captured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m-BWRuRVw-E\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Habu, <\/em>or the yellow spotted pit viper, is native to Okinawa and Amami Islands. On average, they are about 1.3 meters (approx. 4.265 ft) long, which already big enough. However, on October 12th, 2011, a man driving his car in <em>Onna-son<\/em> (\u6069\u7d0d\u6751) captured (maybe ran over?) a <em>habu<\/em> that was 2.42 meters long&#8230; that&#8217;s 7.9 ft !! Weighing 2.8 kg (approx. 6.17 lbs), this was the largest <em>habu<\/em> ever found in the country. <em>Habu <\/em>venom, although low in fatality rate, is of high toxicity and can cause permanent disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Habu, or the yellow spotted pit viper, is native to Okinawa and Amami Islands. On average, they are about 1.3 meters (approx. 4.265 ft) long, which already big enough. However, on October 12th, 2011, a man driving his car in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/newsflash\/largest-habu-captured\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsflash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/281"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":569,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okinawa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}