{"id":4788,"date":"2001-03-02T16:06:40","date_gmt":"2001-03-02T21:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:11:43","slug":"harpo-marsh-%e2%80%94-2-march-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4788","title":{"rendered":"Harpo Marsh \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 2 March 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This morning as we hiked the salt marshes tucked into the lee of Lieutenant Island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sandy hook, we spotted another juvenile harp seal lounging on the snowy remnants of last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s storm front.\u00c2\u00a0 In mermaid perfect pose, she surveyed her\u00c2\u00a0domain, while soaking up the weak rays of an occluded sunrise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4790\" title=\"03-02-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"03-02-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-1-480-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harp Seal on Lieutenant Island<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Assessing us as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153non-threat,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she went about her business, playfully sliding down a nearby creek bank and waddling toward the low-tide drained Loagy Bay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-2-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4791\" title=\"03-02-2 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-2-480.jpg\" alt=\"03-02-2 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-2-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/03\/03-02-2-480-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Juvenile Harp Seal Plays in Drained Marsh Channel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She obviously enjoyed this protected refuge, because several hours later I received a call from a resident asking if I had seen the young harp seal now hauled out on the Sandy Hook and whether she was okay.\u00c2\u00a0 I told her, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes, she seemed in good health\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0.\u00c2\u00a0. very well nourished and quite active.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning as we hiked the salt marshes tucked into the lee of Lieutenant Island\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sandy hook, we spotted another juvenile harp seal lounging on the snowy remnants of last night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s storm front.\u00c2\u00a0 In mermaid perfect pose, she surveyed her\u00c2\u00a0domain, while soaking up the weak rays of an occluded sunrise. Juvenile Harp Seal on Lieutenant [&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\/4788"}],"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=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}