{"id":44070,"date":"2013-09-25T00:09:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=44070"},"modified":"2013-09-25T00:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:09:50","slug":"turtle-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/44070","title":{"rendered":"turtle tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWhat do butterflies and turtle tears have in common?<\/p>\n<p>Funny question, I know, but it&#8217;s more than mere nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that butterflies sip turtle tears to satisfy their need for salt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44094\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44094\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-44094 \" alt=\"gift_gab-turtle_tears1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/gift_gab-turtle_tears1.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-44094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Lufonz via Flickr, CC BY-ND 3.0<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Who even knew that turtles cry, right?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s not out of sorrow, though\u2014simply an eye-moistening matter.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, there&#8217;s something rather fairytale-esque about seeing a butterfly drying a turtle&#8217;s tears.<\/p>\n<p>But bees?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s a different story.<\/p>\n<p>Watch these bees pestering a turtle for its tears\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zSwUfDllyHw?feature=player_embedded\" height=\"360\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do butterflies and turtle tears have in common? Funny question, I know, but it&#8217;s more than mere nonsense. It turns out that butterflies sip turtle tears to satisfy their need for salt. Who even knew that turtles cry, right? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/44070\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/44070\">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-44070","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\/44070","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=44070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}