{"id":25784,"date":"2023-03-17T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=25784"},"modified":"2023-03-25T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T21:03:47","slug":"25784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/25784\/","title":{"rendered":"Life &#038; Island Times: Slithering in Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: Upon awakening today, the piece on slithering wrote itself.<br \/>\nRide the wild winds, me boy-o&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>-Marlow<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT1-e1679778159834.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"359\" \/><br \/>\nLast night was the second annual Savannah Slithering &#8212; a parade of snake lanterns! And people along a ssstroll, from Lone Wolf Lounge to DeSoto Ave. Free, festive, fun, and mildly alcoholic \u2013 one must carry at least one lantern and only one drink. Has something to do with slainte IIRC.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25790\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT2-e1679778180222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT2-e1679778180222.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT2-e1679778180222-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT2-e1679778180222-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/>\nSomehow, centuries after St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland, they wandered the icy Atlantic depths to emerge anew last year as illuminated lanterns in the streets of Savannah!<br \/>\nW made our crew our own lanterns.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT3-e1679778198810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" \/><br \/>\nThe sssslitheirng\u2019s libations had no connections to our pronunciation of sssssslainte!<br \/>\nIIRC, there were Druids, Lizard People, Snake Charmers, Pagans and Weirdos of all stripes &#8212; you know all of Savannah\u2019s year-round residents with their preferred illumination \u2013 lit. Black and\/or green clothing was in evidence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/031723-LIT4-e1679778218290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2023 My Isle Seat<br \/>\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: Upon awakening today, the piece on slithering wrote itself. Ride the wild winds, me boy-o&#8217;s. -Marlow Last night was the second annual Savannah Slithering &#8212; a parade of snake lanterns! And people along a ssstroll, from Lone Wolf Lounge to DeSoto Ave. Free, festive, fun, and mildly alcoholic \u2013 one must carry at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25793,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25784\/revisions\/25793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}