{"id":8669,"date":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/venomous-snake-on-field-of-play-delays-aflw-game-in-australia\/"},"modified":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:50:33","slug":"venomous-snake-on-field-of-play-delays-aflw-game-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/venomous-snake-on-field-of-play-delays-aflw-game-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Venomous snake on field of play delays AFLW game in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      A venomous snake delayed the start of an AFLW game in Blacktown, Australia by half an hour as players waited for a snake catcher to remove it from the field.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The red-bellied black snake, which the Australian Museum says will only bite under extreme circumstances, was spotted on the field before Greater Western Sydney Giants played Richmond Tigers in the AFWL, the women\u2019s Australian football league.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cIt\u2019s pretty interesting,\u201d said the Giants\u2019 head of women\u2019s football Briana Harvey during the delay, according to the AFL.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThere\u2019s a little red-bellied black snake on the ground at the moment, just in one of the far pockets. Obviously for the safety of everyone here we need just to halt the game for the moment.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Once the snake catcher arrived he picked up the snake by its tail, held it up for the cameras and put it in a container to take safely away from the game.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      After the delay, the Giants sunk to their third consecutive loss of the season as Richmond completed a 19-point victory.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A venomous snake delayed the start of an AFLW game in Blacktown, Australia by half an hour as players waited for a snake catcher to remove it from the field. The red-bellied black snake, which the Australian Museum says will only bite under extreme circumstances, was spotted on the field before Greater Western Sydney Giants <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}