{"id":14065,"date":"2014-04-01T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14065"},"modified":"2014-04-01T17:50:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:50:52","slug":"rock-on-painteds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14065","title":{"rendered":"Rock on, Painteds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14069\" title=\"painted turtles 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-002-480-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Painted Turtles Bask after a Long, Hard Winter<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">After days of unrelenting rain on Massachusetts SouthCoast, sunshine finally broke through days of overcast.\u00c2\u00a0 With temperatures still only in the mid-40s, painted turtles (<em>Chrysemus picta<\/em>) tunneled out of the ooze and crawled on rocks to thaw after a too long winter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-0000-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14067\" title=\"painted turtles 0000 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-0000-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-0000-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/painted-turtles-0000-480-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Basking Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) Basking<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">April 1st is late to see these gaudy harbingers of Spring.\u00c2\u00a0 Like crocuses and daffodils,\u00c2\u00a0painted turtles\u00c2\u00a0bring the pleasure of Nature&#8217;s color to the season.\u00c2\u00a0 Rock on, painteds!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painted Turtles Bask after a Long, Hard Winter After days of unrelenting rain on Massachusetts SouthCoast, sunshine finally broke through days of overcast.\u00c2\u00a0 With temperatures still only in the mid-40s, painted turtles (Chrysemus picta) tunneled out of the ooze and crawled on rocks to thaw after a too long winter. Basking Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) [&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\/14065"}],"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=14065"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14079,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065\/revisions\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}