{"id":36800,"date":"2013-05-02T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=36800"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T07:09:53","slug":"yertle-the-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/36800","title":{"rendered":"Yertle the Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSaralou and Ace were carpooling last week when, with a sudden stop, they pulled over to see up close a little fella who was crossing the road S-L-O-W-L-Y. He almost got pancaked by a car!<\/p>\n<p>They scooped him up and brought him to the farm. As it turns out, Yertle, as we call him (from the Dr. Seuss book, <em>Yertle the Turtle<\/em>) is the only turtle breed indigenous to the state of Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-36886 aligncenter\" alt=\"gift_gab-turtle-1001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gift_gab-turtle-1001.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"353\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out what&#8217;s under the hood! Pretty fantastic markings. Apparently it&#8217;s turtle mating season right now, so this guy was probably crossing the road to find a lady friend. Why did the turtle cross the road?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-36896 aligncenter\" alt=\"gift_gab-turtle-1026\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gift_gab-turtle-1026.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"537\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a fun photo shoot we released him (he wasn&#8217;t a huge fan of the indoors) in the pond here at the farm. He&#8217;ll sure have a good time this summer eating the enormous amounts of tadpoles that hatch there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-36913 aligncenter\" alt=\"gift_gab-turtle-1096\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/gift_gab-turtle-1096.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"456\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saralou and Ace were carpooling last week when, with a sudden stop, they pulled over to see up close a little fella who was crossing the road S-L-O-W-L-Y. He almost got pancaked by a car! They scooped him up and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/36800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/36800\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}