{"id":4782,"date":"2001-02-28T16:03:35","date_gmt":"2001-02-28T21:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:06:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:06:20","slug":"where-does-she-put-it-%e2%80%94-28-february-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4782","title":{"rendered":"Where Does She Put It? \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 28 February 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Flower, the freeloading box turtle hatchling who took possession of my garage lab on 14 November, has begun to practice magic.\u00c2\u00a0 Waking as the first light of dawn poked through the oak leaf pile, under which she hides each night presumably from mythical garage owls, Flower plowed through her breakfast plate of chopped tomato, lettuce, mushroom and berries and sauntered across her makeshift terrarium.\u00c2\u00a0 She paused for a brief stopover at her wading pool to wash out the night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cobwebs, then zigzagged to the converted sushi bowl, which serves as her swimming hole.\u00c2\u00a0 She slipped down\u00c2\u00a0a mossy patch, which subs as a safety ladder and spent the rest of the day lounging in her pool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/02-28-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4783\" title=\"02-28-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/02-28-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"02-28-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/02-28-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/02-28-1-480-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Eastern Box Turtle Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">When I checked this evening, Flower had rumbled back across the terrarium to her secret hideaway.\u00c2\u00a0 And, amazingly, the entire sushi bowl was bare dry.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a hint of moisture remained.\u00c2\u00a0 How a quarter ounce hatchling manages to conceal a quarter cup of water indicates a level of magical power beyond mere mortal power to discern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower, the freeloading box turtle hatchling who took possession of my garage lab on 14 November, has begun to practice magic.\u00c2\u00a0 Waking as the first light of dawn poked through the oak leaf pile, under which she hides each night presumably from mythical garage owls, Flower plowed through her breakfast plate of chopped tomato, lettuce, [&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\/4782"}],"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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4787,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions\/4787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}