{"id":26629,"date":"2020-07-25T17:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=26629"},"modified":"2020-07-25T17:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T21:09:01","slug":"today-a-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2020\/07\/today-a-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Today, a turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/DaEdge.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile turtle likely eastern river cooter Pseudemys concinna concinna perched on rock in early morning light\" width=\"750\" height=\"1091\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26630\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Likely an eastern river cooter (<em>Pseudemys concinna concinna<\/em>,) even though we were not on the Eastern River, but the Eno River instead<strong>;<\/strong> it&#8217;s probably them damn unoriginal biologists wanting to call everything <em>eastern<\/em>, like there was some kind of east\/west civil war that the east lost and still gets cranky about nearly 200 years later. This was from an outing today, about the only worthwhile frames from a slow and hot morning. I had lugged the 150-600mm along, which allowed me to get this kind of view of a turtle much smaller than my palm in the middle of the river.<\/p>\n<p>I have more coming, but not from today, and not of turtles. I just wanted to post the two pics that will otherwise sit in the blog folder like orphans awaiting similar frames or subjects. Plus that one above seems to need a dramatic caption.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/GReeneyes.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile turtle likely eastern river cooter Pseudemys concinna concinna portrait\" width=\"750\" height=\"545\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26631\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Likely an eastern river cooter (Pseudemys concinna concinna,) even though we were not on the Eastern River, but the Eno River instead; it&#8217;s probably them damn unoriginal biologists wanting to call everything eastern, like there was some kind of east\/west civil war that the east lost and still gets cranky about nearly 200 years later. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,12],"tags":[5603,3196,5604],"class_list":["post-26629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-eastern-river-cooter","tag-juvenile","tag-pseudemys-concinna-concinna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}