{"id":41726,"date":"2026-05-22T21:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=41726"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:37:43","slug":"appropriately-slow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2026\/05\/appropriately-slow\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriately slow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/EyeInThere.jpg\" alt=\"closeup of likely eastern mud turtle Kinosternon subrubrum mostly hidden within shell\" width=\"750\" height=\"530\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41727\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>For reasons unknown, Thunderbird (my e-mail\/calendar program) has stopped providing the programmed reminders at the proper times, meaning I will either get notifications randomly, or not at all. So we have little forewarning about World Turtle Day, which is tomorrow. I already have a few things I can feature, and will see if I have the opportunity for anything further &#8211; we&#8217;ve been having warnings of lots of rain for the past week, but so far it has pushed off better than 24 hours from when it was supposed to begin, and we&#8217;re starting to get suspicious that we&#8217;ll receive a lot less than expected.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s also laying season and the evidence of that has been significant, so we&#8217;ll see, won&#8217;t we? Either way, don&#8217;t wait for <em>me<\/em> to provide for you, but go out and find your own turtles. Or donate to a turtle rescue group somewhere &#8211; the sea turtle rehabilitation centers can <em>always<\/em> use a little more help. Do <em>something<\/em> for turtles, since it&#8217;s their day &#8211; you know they&#8217;d do the same for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For reasons unknown, Thunderbird (my e-mail\/calendar program) has stopped providing the programmed reminders at the proper times, meaning I will either get notifications randomly, or not at all. So we have little forewarning about World Turtle Day, which is tomorrow. I already have a few things I can feature, and will see if I have [&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":[6780,6784,6182],"class_list":["post-41726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-eastern-mud-turtle","tag-kinosternon-subrubrum","tag-world-turtle-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726","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=41726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41729,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41726\/revisions\/41729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}