{"id":130750,"date":"2018-02-20T14:30:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=130750"},"modified":"2018-02-20T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T09:00:25","slug":"snake-blood-scorpions-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/snake-blood-scorpions-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake blood &#038; scorpions for Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US and Thai marines slurped snake blood and ate scorpions in a jungle survival programme as part of the two nations\u2019 annual Cobra Gold war games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now in its 37th year, Cobra Gold is one of the largest military exercises in Asia, bringing thousands of troops from the United States, Thailand and other countries for 10 days of field training on Thai shores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blood-of-cobra.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-130751\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/blood-of-cobra.jpg\" alt=\"Snake blood &amp; scorpions for Marines \" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several dozen US and Thai marines took park in an annual jungle survival drill on a Thai navy base in Chonburi province, where troops took turns drinking blood from a severed cobra before grilling and eating the snakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thai military trainers also taught the group \u2013 which included South Korean troops \u2013 how to remove venom from scorpions and tarantulas before eating them, find water in jungle vines and identify edible plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US and Thai marines slurped snake blood and ate scorpions in a jungle survival programme as part of the two nations\u2019 annual Cobra Gold war games. Now in its 37th year, Cobra Gold is one of the largest military exercises in Asia, bringing thousands of troops from the United States, Thailand and other countries for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4752,66849,66847,61365,66846,66845,66850,66848,7488,4737,66844],"class_list":["post-130750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-asia","tag-chonburi-province","tag-cobra-gold-war-games","tag-marines","tag-scorpions","tag-snake-blood","tag-south-korean-troops","tag-thai-navy","tag-thailand","tag-united-states","tag-us-and-thai"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Y6HNJCJ6GJFDPAJTQ3O3S3DLGM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}