{"id":18399,"date":"2010-05-28T21:24:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T01:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18399"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:27:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:27:30","slug":"what-i-saw-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/28\/what-i-saw-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Saw This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First thing I did after waking this morning was to sit down and start working. First thing Irene did this morning was to  head outside.  I think she made the better choice. <\/p>\n<p>But at least I got to share in the reward.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after I&#8217;d started working, the phone rang, and since it was so early, I thought, &#8220;Uh-oh, what&#8217;s wrong?&#8221; Luckily, no one had died. It was Irene calling to tell me to quickly get outside to see the box turtle wandering around our yard. &#8220;Quickly&#8221; because a turtle can move quite fast when it knows it&#8217;s being watched, and if I wanted to catch a glimpse of it, I couldn&#8217;t dawdle.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the cutie below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle52810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle52810-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle52810\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle52810-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle52810.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This was a smaller one than we saw last week&#8212;maybe only five inches long.<\/p>\n<p>Irene is now one box turtle ahead of me this season (the score is 3-2), as she saw one earlier in the week about a mile down the road. Last year, we saw so many through the spring and summer (14? 16? 18?)  that we lost count. I&#8217;m hoping this year proves to be the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First thing I did after waking this morning was to sit down and start working. First thing Irene did this morning was to head outside. I think she made the better choice. But at least I got to share in the reward. Shortly after I&#8217;d started working, the phone rang, and since it was so [&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-18399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399","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=18399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18401,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18399\/revisions\/18401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}