{"id":11614,"date":"2012-08-08T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11614"},"modified":"2012-08-08T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:58:57","slug":"baby-turtles-begin-to-emerge-in-coastal-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11614","title":{"rendered":"Baby Turtles Begin to Emerge in Coastal Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">SAVE THE WORLD, ONE BABY TURTLE AT A TIME<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hatchling-Tracks-001-cropped-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11615\" title=\"Hatchling Tracks 001 cropped 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hatchling-Tracks-001-cropped-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hatchling-Tracks-001-cropped-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Hatchling-Tracks-001-cropped-480-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We saw the first terrapin hatchling tracks on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts this morning. Within the next few weeks, baby turtles will begin emerging everywhere in the Northeast. Look down and save a baby turtle!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00c2\u00a0 <object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFzNy-Tzlo0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sFzNy-Tzlo0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Baby Turtles Emerge from Natural Nest and Take First Breath<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One-inch, quarter ounce hatchlings are most vulnerable when they tunnel out in their version of the Great Escape. They scramble to camouflage and safety in nursery habitat where they spend the first two-to-three years of their lives, the Lost Years, evading predators that consider hatchlings a crunchy potato-chip like dessert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Poke us, email us, call our hotline (508-274-5108) if you see hatchlings and you would like advice on how best to help them to safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAVE THE WORLD, ONE BABY TURTLE AT A TIME We saw the first terrapin hatchling tracks on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts this morning. Within the next few weeks, baby turtles will begin emerging everywhere in the Northeast. Look down and save a baby turtle! \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Baby Turtles Emerge from Natural Nest and Take First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11623,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11614\/revisions\/11623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}