{"id":11789,"date":"2012-09-03T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T18:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11789"},"modified":"2012-09-03T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T18:13:49","slug":"hide-your-pets-and-children-here-come-the-snappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=11789","title":{"rendered":"Bring in Your Pets; Hide Your Children.  Here Come the Snappers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-010-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11801 alignnone\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-010-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-010-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-010-480-300x290.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Snappers:\u00c2\u00a0 Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Forty-two hyper-charged snapper babies emerged from a single nest at Turtle Journal Sunday evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking more ancient than a <em>triceratops<\/em> and as fiercesome as a <em>tyrannosaurus rex<\/em>, these hatchlings are all heads and tails.\u00c2\u00a0 When they get a little older, snappers present a no win scenario for humans:\u00c2\u00a0 heads you lose, tails you lose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-008-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11799\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-008-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-008-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-008-480-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Attack of the Snapper Babies!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watching these babies swarm gave Turtle Journal the concept for a Hollywood B movie.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;d pitch it as a cross between Jaws and Aliens, as snappers enveloped the Earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-004-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11795\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-004-480-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>No Obstacle Can Restrain Them<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Clearly, no obstacle can restrain them.\u00c2\u00a0 They scale walls and advance with neither angst nor doubt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11793\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-003-480-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Wave after Wave, They Come!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Onward they advance, wave and wave.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-006-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11797\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-006-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-006-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/snapper-006-480-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Fierce and Unstoppable, They&#8217;re Snapping Their Way to You<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bring in your pets; hide your childen.\u00c2\u00a0 The baby snappers are here and you should be very, very afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snappers:\u00c2\u00a0 Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose Forty-two hyper-charged snapper babies emerged from a single nest at Turtle Journal Sunday evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Looking more ancient than a triceratops and as fiercesome as a tyrannosaurus rex, these hatchlings are all heads and tails.\u00c2\u00a0 When they get a little older, snappers present a no win scenario for humans:\u00c2\u00a0 [&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\/11789"}],"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=11789"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11815,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11789\/revisions\/11815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}