{"id":4743,"date":"2001-01-30T15:18:28","date_gmt":"2001-01-30T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2010-03-03T15:22:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:22:03","slug":"do-flowers-bloom-in-winter-%e2%80%94-30-january-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4743","title":{"rendered":"Do Flowers Bloom in Winter? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 30 January 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4745\" title=\"01-30-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"01-30-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-1-480-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>&#8220;Flower&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Tiny Flower, the box turtle hatchling found cold-stunned and dropped on my doorstep on 14 November, has become quite active this last week.\u00c2\u00a0 In her makeshift terrarium with a beautiful southern exposure to the Fresh Brook marsh from my garage lab, she had settled into a slow but sure rhythm through December and January.\u00c2\u00a0 She would hunker down beneath her pile of oak leaves for a couple of days, then lumber over to her wading pool (a converted sushi bowl) where she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d lounge for a few hours, stopping and grazing at her food pile en route to the pool and back to her hiding place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4746\" title=\"01-30-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"01-30-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/01\/01-30-2-480-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Eastern\u00c2\u00a0 Box Turtle Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">For the last week or so, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s begun daily power walks, active on and off from dawn to dusk.\u00c2\u00a0 She spends a lot more time in her two pools and almost no time hiding under the leaves.\u00c2\u00a0 If she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reacting to the new sun angle in anticipation of spring, she seems a bit premature.\u00c2\u00a0 But on the other hand, when you live in a temperature-controlled, humidity-controlled habitat with a nice heat lamp to keep life warm and toasty, spring may simply be a state of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Flower&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling Tiny Flower, the box turtle hatchling found cold-stunned and dropped on my doorstep on 14 November, has become quite active this last week.\u00c2\u00a0 In her makeshift terrarium with a beautiful southern exposure to the Fresh Brook marsh from my garage lab, she had settled into a slow but sure rhythm [&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\/4743"}],"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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}