{"id":205,"date":"2008-09-02T23:23:21","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T03:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:07:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:07:03","slug":"peek-inside-the-egg-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Peek Inside the Egg Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Like a clenched fist deep inside\u00c2\u00a0a carefully carved terrapin nest lies the egg chamber where the female has deposited her clutch 75 days earlier. When the clock chimes &#8220;emergence,&#8221; hatchlings squirm and wiggle their way free of their siblings to begin their dash for survival.\u00c2\u00a0 Today at noon the alarm rang for Nest 280 on the high dune of Turtle Point on Lieutenant Island.\u00c2\u00a0 Count noses, count eyes, count limbs as hatchlings get ready to sprint for freedom.<\/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\/DJP8jAAuty4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DJP8jAAuty4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Hatchling Bunched Tightly in Egg Chamber<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a clenched fist deep inside\u00c2\u00a0a carefully carved terrapin nest lies the egg chamber where the female has deposited her clutch 75 days earlier. When the clock chimes &#8220;emergence,&#8221; hatchlings squirm and wiggle their way free of their siblings to begin their dash for survival.\u00c2\u00a0 Today at noon the alarm rang for Nest 280 on [&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":[202,142,201,200,203,40,76,9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}