{"id":4903,"date":"2001-04-10T20:51:58","date_gmt":"2001-04-11T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4903"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T01:57:36","slug":"the-great-escape-%e2%80%94-10-april-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=4903","title":{"rendered":"The Great Escape \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 10 April 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4905\" title=\"04-10-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-1.jpg\" alt=\"04-10-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-1-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Male Fiddler Crab<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Two days of bright sunshine baked the Land of Ooze, and its mud flats have begun to spring to life.\u00c2\u00a0 True, these critters aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 But they do live in the marsh creeks, they burrow under the mud for winter, and they are an imminent precursor of our beloved terrapins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Water temperatures, even early this morning, had reached 52 degrees Fahrenheit.\u00c2\u00a0 Fiddler crabs sprang from the ooze, muddy mounds surrounding escape tunnels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4906\" title=\"04-10-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-2.jpg\" alt=\"04-10-2\" width=\"480\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-2-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Male Fiddler Crabs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">They haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t begun to march in armies yet, but they have emerged and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a welcomed harbinger of things to come.\u00c2\u00a0 Even in the grassy marsh, fiddlers are on the move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-5-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4907\" title=\"04-10-5 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-5-480.jpg\" alt=\"04-10-5 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-5-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2001\/04\/04-10-5-480-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Springtime Duets<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">And it is springtime, so it shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t surprise us that all God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creatures seem to prefer a two-seater rather than flying solo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Male Fiddler Crab Two days of bright sunshine baked the Land of Ooze, and its mud flats have begun to spring to life.\u00c2\u00a0 True, these critters aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t turtles.\u00c2\u00a0 But they do live in the marsh creeks, they burrow under the mud for winter, and they are an imminent precursor of our beloved terrapins. 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