{"id":14399,"date":"2014-04-12T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14399"},"modified":"2014-04-12T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T20:59:43","slug":"first-active-terrapins-of-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14399","title":{"rendered":"FIRST ACTIVE TERRAPINS OF 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/male-terrapin-swimming-Sippican-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14401\" title=\"male terrapin swimming Sippican 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/male-terrapin-swimming-Sippican-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/male-terrapin-swimming-Sippican-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/male-terrapin-swimming-Sippican-480-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>First Active Male Diamondback Terrapin of 2014<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paddling in Sippican Harbor off Buzzards Bay at noon today, April 12th, the Turtle Journal team spotted a pair of diamondback terrapins actively engaged in &#8220;courtship&#8221; within Marion&#8217;s major mating aggregation.\u00c2\u00a0 While a net was not readily accessible for a capture, the camera caught the male paddling for safety.\u00c2\u00a0 Despite this long, hard winter in the Great White North, terrapin activity has begun only a few days later than last year.\u00c2\u00a0 Today&#8217;s temperature rose to the mid-60s with a 10-15 mph breeze out of the north-northwest.\u00c2\u00a0 The turtles were\u00c2\u00a0observed within thirty minutes of dead low tide.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Active Male Diamondback Terrapin of 2014 Paddling in Sippican Harbor off Buzzards Bay at noon today, April 12th, the Turtle Journal team spotted a pair of diamondback terrapins actively engaged in &#8220;courtship&#8221; within Marion&#8217;s major mating aggregation.\u00c2\u00a0 While a net was not readily accessible for a capture, the camera caught the male paddling for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399"}],"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=14399"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14410,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions\/14410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}