{"id":694,"date":"2005-08-25T09:13:30","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2008-09-30T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T13:47:58","slug":"usvi-green-sea-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"USVI: Green Sea Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caneel Bay Resort in St. John offers access to exquisite reef ecosystems that have been largely protected over time.\u00c2\u00a0 Off Caneel Bay&#8217;s Scott Beach you find a beautiful, clear patch of turtle grass, and unsurprisingly you may expect to encounter geen sea turtles grazing along the shallow bottom.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WnA02F6Oyb4\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WnA02F6Oyb4\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Green Sea Turtle Grazing off Caneel Bay, St. John, USVI<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sea turtles are internationally and federally protected species; give them a wide berth and take no action that might disturb their natural behavior.\u00c2\u00a0 But pause to enjoy their majestic presence as they swim gracefully by and surface for air between belly-fuls of turtle grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caneel Bay Resort in St. John offers access to exquisite reef ecosystems that have been largely protected over time.\u00c2\u00a0 Off Caneel Bay&#8217;s Scott Beach you find a beautiful, clear patch of turtle grass, and unsurprisingly you may expect to encounter geen sea turtles grazing along the shallow bottom. Green Sea Turtle Grazing off Caneel [&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\/694"}],"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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}