{"id":31895,"date":"2022-05-23T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T04:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=31895"},"modified":"2022-05-22T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T02:17:49","slug":"go-find-a-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/05\/go-find-a-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Go find a turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TooLateForProfiles.jpg\" alt=\"profile of Aldabra giant tortoise Geochelone gigantea at Greensboro Science Center\" width=\"750\" height=\"1057\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30916\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Getting this out early to let you know that today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldturtleday.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>World Turtle Day<\/strong><\/a> (for realsies, cross my heart,) so go out and find yourself a turtle &#8211; it should be warm enough throughout most of the US to spot one someplace. Or if you don&#8217;t want to do that, you can always donate to the turtle rescue or protection fund of your choice, or teach someone about turtles, or make those little chocolate-and-peanut thingies &#8211; whatever works. That link may provide some ideas if you need any.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of these images were taken today, because this is posting in the wee hours, but I intend to get out and see what I can find myself, so watch this space for further developments. Though since the posts display &#8216;newest first,&#8217; you&#8217;ve either already seen what I&#8217;ve found, or you need to come back in a little bit. Either way, it&#8217;s your chance to get something better than I did, perhaps even before I did. You won&#8217;t, of course, because this is <em>me<\/em> we&#8217;re talking about, but you can still try.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the day!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/ItsTheirDay.jpg\" alt=\"pair of eastern river cooters Pseudemys concinna concinna in Eno River\" width=\"750\" height=\"482\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31896\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting this out early to let you know that today is World Turtle Day (for realsies, cross my heart,) so go out and find yourself a turtle &#8211; it should be warm enough throughout most of the US to spot one someplace. Or if you don&#8217;t want to do that, you can always donate to [&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],"tags":[6755,5603,6756,5604,6182],"class_list":["post-31895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-aldabra-giant-tortoise","tag-eastern-river-cooter","tag-geochelone-gigantea","tag-pseudemys-concinna-concinna","tag-world-turtle-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31895","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=31895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}