{"id":168,"date":"2008-07-06T15:33:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T19:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:35:15","slug":"the-long-journey-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"The Long Journey Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The Land of Ooze enjoys 13 foot high tides and minus 2 foot low tides, creating an enormous rim of salt marsh and tidal flats that a female terrapin must cross as she returns to the bay after nesting. She often rides the high tide into the sandy uplands, but the water drops quickly with a 15-foot tidal swing. Notice how well she blends with the habitat once she reaches the salt marsh grass. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7SCsZ3gl0VY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7SCsZ3gl0VY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Female Terrapin Heads Back to Bay after Nesting at Turtle Point<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Land of Ooze enjoys 13 foot high tides and minus 2 foot low tides, creating an enormous rim of salt marsh and tidal flats that a female terrapin must cross as she returns to the bay after nesting. She often rides the high tide into the sandy uplands, but the water drops quickly with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/168"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}