{"id":29010,"date":"2021-05-23T12:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=29010"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:10:43","slug":"almost-went-by-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2021\/05\/almost-went-by-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost went by me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tortoise.com\/world-turtle-day.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Turtle Day<\/a>, which I only discovered by reading <a href=\"https:\/\/whyevolutionistrue.com\/2021\/05\/23\/readers-turtles\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Why Evolution Is True<\/em><\/a> just a few minutes ago. As such, I am ill-prepared, and can only resort to a photo from a few days back for something current.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/NationalTurtles.jpg\" alt=\"cooters, possibly Florida cooters Pseudemys floridana basking on stumps\" width=\"750\" height=\"987\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29011\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Curiously, these might be Florida cooters (<em>Pseudemys floridana<\/em>) based on the habitat and their faint markings, but I wouldn&#8217;t confidently inform any investors of that &#8211; I&#8217;m more confident that they&#8217;re one of the cooter family (genus <em>Pseudemys<\/em>) anyway. This is a crop for better focus on our holiday subject, part of a lager frame that included more, like this<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/MoreNationalTurtles.jpg\" alt=\"cooters, possibly Florida cooters Pseudemys floridana basking on stumps\" width=\"750\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29012\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>It&#8217;s only midday, so I may still get out and get some super-current turtles, especially since these were found down at a spot with an active osprey nest that did not appear to have hatched earlier this week, so I need to check on them anyway. Plus there are turtles near Walkabout Studios anyway, so all I have to do is get some frames worthy of the holiday. Shouldn&#8217;t be too hard, right? I should never say things like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, enjoy World Turtle Day! I&#8217;m not sure how you celebrate it, really &#8211; maybe read some Aeschylus&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Turtle Day, which I only discovered by reading Why Evolution Is True just a few minutes ago. As such, I am ill-prepared, and can only resort to a photo from a few days back for something current. Curiously, these might be Florida cooters (Pseudemys floridana) based on the habitat and their faint [&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],"tags":[6185,6183,6112,6186,6184,6187,6182],"class_list":["post-29010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-cooter","tag-florida-cooter","tag-look-it-up","tag-pseudemys","tag-pseudemys-floridana","tag-theres-only-one-the-great-atuin","tag-world-turtle-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29010","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=29010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}