{"id":7247,"date":"2010-09-01T20:08:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T01:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T18:48:16","slug":"turtle-babies-will-be-released-saturday-at-wareham-community-gardens-public-welcomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7247","title":{"rendered":"Turtle Babies Will Be Released Saturday at Wareham Community Gardens &#8212; Public Welcomed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/plugged-nickel-002-840.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7250\" title=\"plugged nickel 002 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/plugged-nickel-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"plugged nickel 002 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/plugged-nickel-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/plugged-nickel-002-480-300x266.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Nickel-Sized Painted Turtle Hatchling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   google_ad_client = \"pub-6174531794045772\"; \/* TJ adds, 336x280, created 11\/14\/10 *\/ google_ad_slot = \"5313686105\"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wareham-ma.villagesoup.com\/community\/story\/new-releases-at-the-wareham-community-gardens\/2851\" target=\"_blank\">New Releases at the Wareham Community Gardens<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">(Click on title above to see original article on Village Soup Community Network)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">By Cyrus Moulton, Wareham Week<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><span id=\"publishDate\">Sep 01, 2010<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Come and join turtle experts Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse as they release eleven painted turtles into the wild on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Wareham Community Garden on Tihonet Road.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">This was the second year that gardeners found painted turtles nesting alongside zucchini, squash and corn.\u00c2\u00a0 But the reptiles will be back.\u00c2\u00a0 Turtles return to lay eggs at the same place in which they were hatched, explained Lewis.\u00c2\u00a0 So these turtles are the garden&#8217;s hardiest perennials!<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Nevertheless, Wieber Nourse and Lewis decided to help them out by covering the incubating eggs (there were originally two nests, which Wieber Nourse combined after the mother turtle had deposited her eggs and safely returned to the water) with protective fencing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Two weeks ago, the hatchlings began to emerge.\u00c2\u00a0 Since then, Wieber Nourse and Lewis have been helping them get ready for their release, and they want lots of people &#8211; especially kids! &#8211; on hand to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">So 10 a.m. on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;The turtles are &#8216;shells up&#8217; and looking forward to freedom on Saturday morning,&#8221; said Lewis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nickel-Sized Painted Turtle Hatchling New Releases at the Wareham Community Gardens (Click on title above to see original article on Village Soup Community Network) By Cyrus Moulton, Wareham Week Sep 01, 2010 Come and join turtle experts Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse as they release eleven painted turtles into the wild on Saturday at [&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\/7247"}],"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=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}