{"id":13796,"date":"2014-03-18T15:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:32:48","slug":"first-spotted-turtle-of-2014-on-massachusetts-southcoast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=13796","title":{"rendered":"First Spotted Turtle of 2014 on Massachusetts SouthCoast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/first-spotted-000-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13798\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/first-spotted-000-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/first-spotted-000-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/first-spotted-000-480-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>First 2014 Spotted Turtle at Brainard Marsh Pond in Marion<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Perhaps there will be an end to this endless winter.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team visited Brainard Marsh in East Marion this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Spotted turtles in the small, shallow pond\u00c2\u00a0in Brainard Marsh usually awaken first on the SouthCoast.\u00c2\u00a0 The sun warms this protected pond in mid-March, coaxing spotteds to &#8220;spring&#8221; to life.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At 37 degrees Fahrenheit at 2:15 pm, we had little hope of seeing our first turtle of the year.\u00c2\u00a0 Yet, the sun must have warmed the water just enough to nudge one adult spotted turtle out of brumation (winter slumber).\u00c2\u00a0 Sue Wieber Nourse observed this well camouflaged beauty basking at the surface and representing our first turtle sighting of 2014 on the SouthCoast of Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Let the Turtle Season begin!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First 2014 Spotted Turtle at Brainard Marsh Pond in Marion Perhaps there will be an end to this endless winter.\u00c2\u00a0 The Turtle Journal team visited Brainard Marsh in East Marion this afternoon.\u00c2\u00a0 Spotted turtles in the small, shallow pond\u00c2\u00a0in Brainard Marsh usually awaken first on the SouthCoast.\u00c2\u00a0 The sun warms this protected pond in mid-March, [&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\/13796"}],"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=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13805,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions\/13805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}