{"id":32669,"date":"2022-08-31T17:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=32669"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T21:47:32","slug":"cant-leave-it-at-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/08\/cant-leave-it-at-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t leave it at that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a quick check last night (after finalizing the previous post,) I found that I&#8217;d uploaded 99 images for August, and that simply won&#8217;t do. I got a nice handful today at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ncbg.unc.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NC Botanical Garden<\/a>, but no time right now to write them up, so we&#8217;ll stick with just rounding up to a nice even C.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/1stBox2022.jpg\" alt=\"male eastern box turtle Terrapene carolina carolina from NC Botanical Garden\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32670\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This is a male eastern box turtle (<em>Terrapene carolina carolina<\/em>,) the first I&#8217;ve seen in quite a while, despite doing a specific search for them &#8211; well, <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/05\/pathetic\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a day<\/a>, anyway. The red eye tells us it&#8217;s a male (most likely,) and the ridges on each of the &#8216;scales&#8217; (scutes) of the shell tell us it&#8217;s about 12 years old. The crushed gravel substrate used in the paths there tell us it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> uncomfortable kneeling to get a shot.<\/p>\n<p>I have more images, but they&#8217;re likely not to get up here until tomorrow at least. Besides, why would I ruin 100?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing a quick check last night (after finalizing the previous post,) I found that I&#8217;d uploaded 99 images for August, and that simply won&#8217;t do. I got a nice handful today at the NC Botanical Garden, but no time right now to write them up, so we&#8217;ll stick with just rounding up to a nice [&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":[6895,2965,5139,2966],"class_list":["post-32669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-course-i-had-192-in-october-20","tag-eastern-box-turtle","tag-nc-botanical-gardens","tag-terrapene-carolina-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32669","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=32669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}