{"id":5070,"date":"2001-04-27T21:09:21","date_gmt":"2001-04-28T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2010-03-08T21:11:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:11:37","slug":"perspective-%e2%80%94-27-april-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Perspective \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 27 April 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Air temperature 44\u00c2\u00b0F, water 49\u00c2\u00b0F, wind 20 knots\u00c2\u00a0out of the NE with 30+ gusts = a return to brumation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/04-27-1-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5071\" title=\"04-27-1 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/04-27-1-480.jpg\" alt=\"04-27-1 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/04-27-1-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/04-27-1-480-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Cold\u00c2\u00a0and Turtle-Free Blackfish Creek<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Showing an even-keeled sensibility, which has enabled 250 million years of survival, the Wellfleet Bay terrapins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decision to retreat was indeed the better part of valor.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a single turtle braved today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brutal conditions, opting instead to rest snuggly in the oozy warmth of their muddy beds.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wake me when this miserable spring is over,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d one\u00c2\u00a0yawned to the other.\u00c2\u00a0 And near-audible z\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s could be felt resonating from the bottom of Blackfish Creek.\u00c2\u00a0 If only humans had such a fine-honed sense of perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air temperature 44\u00c2\u00b0F, water 49\u00c2\u00b0F, wind 20 knots\u00c2\u00a0out of the NE with 30+ gusts = a return to brumation. Cold\u00c2\u00a0and Turtle-Free Blackfish Creek Showing an even-keeled sensibility, which has enabled 250 million years of survival, the Wellfleet Bay terrapins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 decision to retreat was indeed the better part of valor.\u00c2\u00a0 Not a single turtle braved today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070"}],"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=5070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5070\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}