{"id":13266,"date":"2008-09-06T23:09:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T03:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13266"},"modified":"2014-01-23T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:51:52","slug":"shell-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/06\/shell-shocked\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drenching storm passed through here this afternoon, and once it had passed, Irene and I stepped outside to check whether any trees or large branches had come down, as sometimes happens when it gets wet and windy.<\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t get far, because here&#8217;s who we found no more than a dozen feet from our back deck.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/September2008Turtle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/September2008Turtle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"September2008Turtle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-13267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/September2008Turtle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/September2008Turtle.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until I knelt to snap its picture, its neck protruded and all four feet were out, so I was obviously making it nervous, even though I tried to stay down at its level and made no threatening gestures.  I retreated and watched from a distance until it was comfortable enough to start moving again.<\/p>\n<p>This has been our best year ever for encountering turtles in the wild.  (Well, not counting all those we came across in Tokyo&#8217;s ponds last year.)  I think I&#8217;ve spotted at least six this summer, each at a different spot on our property or the adjacent road.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drenching storm passed through here this afternoon, and once it had passed, Irene and I stepped outside to check whether any trees or large branches had come down, as sometimes happens when it gets wet and windy. We didn&#8217;t get far, because here&#8217;s who we found no more than a dozen feet from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13266\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}