{"id":18404,"date":"2010-06-05T19:52:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T23:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18404"},"modified":"2015-02-01T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T01:33:56","slug":"another-turtle-comes-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/05\/another-turtle-comes-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Turtle Comes Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2010\/05\/28\/what-i-saw-this-morning\/\">A week ago<\/a>, Irene called me outside to see a box turtle. Yesterday, I returned the favor, and with an entirely different turtle. <\/p>\n<p>I had been out in the wayback, enjoying the growth of this year&#8217;s bamboo shoots and trying to unkink my mind from the work week,  and as I returned to the house, I spotted the turtle below, heading in the opposite direction.  I raced back to the house, shouted for Irene to get outside, then rushed to the turtle again before it could vanish. (When turtles are of a mind to, they can move quite quickly.) By the time I returned to the turtle, no more than a minute or so later, he&#8217;d moved along maybe five feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65101-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle65101\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65101-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65101.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The one from May 28 had been around 50 feet northeast of our house. This one was perhaps 100 feet south and slightly west of the house. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wonder if they&#8217;ve ever met?<\/p>\n<p>Here it is, about to continue on its way. What a beautiful shell!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65102-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle65102\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65102-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Turtle65102.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Irene, by the way, is now <i>two<\/i> ahead of me as far as  turtle-spotting goes this season, because she saw a water turtle along the road when she was out earlier the same day. So the current tally is&#8212;Irene 5, Scott 3.<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m ever going to even that score, I can see I&#8217;m going to have to make a few more solo outings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago, Irene called me outside to see a box turtle. Yesterday, I returned the favor, and with an entirely different turtle. I had been out in the wayback, enjoying the growth of this year&#8217;s bamboo shoots and trying to unkink my mind from the work week, and as I returned to the house, [&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-18404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404","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=18404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18407,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions\/18407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}