{"id":26900,"date":"2019-08-01T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26900"},"modified":"2019-08-01T10:25:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:25:05","slug":"rattlesnake-encounter-stops-mail-delivery-in-south-san-jose-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/08\/01\/rattlesnake-encounter-stops-mail-delivery-in-south-san-jose-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattlesnake Encounter Stops Mail Delivery in South San Jose Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/portableplayer\/?cmsID=513468832&#038;videoID=tlm_rfsfKRBa&#038;origin=nbcbayarea.com&#038;sec=news&#038;subsec=local&#038;width=600&#038;height=360\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A postal carrier in San Jose recently happened upon a rattlesnake along his route, and now residents in the Almaden Valley neighborhood aren\u2019t getting their mail delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Residents along two streets in the neighborhood admit they have seen rattlesnakes in the past. But since a mail carrier saw one, delivery has been stopped.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Long has lived here in the area for decades, and it&#8217;s the first time he\u2019s not getting the mail delivered to his house. He and his neighbors along Montego Court and Montego Drive received a letter from their postal carrier, saying that because of rattlesnakes in the area, they will no longer get mail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve lived here since 1988. I have seen one rattlesnake, one time. That\u2019s not a huge danger,&#8221; Long said. &#8220;You\u2019ll notice I don\u2019t even have shoes on.&#8221; Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/Rattlesnake-Encounter-Stops-Mail-Delivery-in-South-San-Jose-Neighborhood-513467701.html\">NBC Bay Area<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26902\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Snakes-NBC-Bay-Area.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Snakes-NBC-Bay-Area.jpg 456w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Snakes-NBC-Bay-Area-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A postal carrier in San Jose recently happened upon a rattlesnake along his route, and now residents in the Almaden Valley neighborhood aren\u2019t getting their mail delivered. Residents along two streets in the neighborhood admit they have seen rattlesnakes in the past. But since a mail carrier saw one, delivery has been stopped. Dave Long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26903,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26900\/revisions\/26903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}