{"id":9219,"date":"2011-05-26T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9219"},"modified":"2011-05-26T21:24:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T02:24:42","slug":"turtle-wow-lakeville-historical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9219","title":{"rendered":"Turtles WOW Lakeville Historical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-004-9601.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9222\" title=\"es 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-004-4801.jpg\" alt=\"es 004 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-004-4801.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-004-4801-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Diamondback Terrapins Meet Nat &amp; Kaye Emens<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Turtle Journal brought its multimedia <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Turtles Gone Wild<\/strong><\/em><\/span> presentation to the Lakeville Historical Society on Wednesday night.\u00c2\u00a0 To be certain that Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse got all the facts right, a cadre of hard-shelled guests came along to keep the Turtle Journal team on the straight and narrow.\u00c2\u00a0 A female and male pair of diamondback terrapins took the night off from romance at the Outer Cape mating aggregation.\u00c2\u00a0 A female spotted turtle came along from a SouthCoast bog where she has been waiting for her turn to nest.\u00c2\u00a0 And a two year old juvenile painted turtle thought it would be fun to show off his stuff for two legged critters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-002-closeup-9601.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9226\" title=\"es 002 closeup 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-002-closeup-4801.jpg\" alt=\"es 002 closeup 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-002-closeup-4801.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-002-closeup-4801-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Historical Society Members Meet Male Diamondback Terrapin<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the SRO (standing room only) crowd endured Don&#8217;s turtle stories, they truly lit up when Sue introduced them to our reptilian guests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-003-9601.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9224\" title=\"es 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-003-4801.jpg\" alt=\"es 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-003-4801.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/es-003-4801-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Dad Meets Momma Terp; Daughter Holds Handsome Dude<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of all the specimens on hand, none wowed the audience more than the diamondback terrapin pair.\u00c2\u00a0 As is the way with terrapins, the female is significantly larger than her male companion.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of the evening, all went off into an exquisite May evening knowing a lot more about turtles and their history in Massachusetts, and smiling at the comical antics of these warm-hearted, cold-blooded creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamondback Terrapins Meet Nat &amp; Kaye Emens Turtle Journal brought its multimedia Turtles Gone Wild presentation to the Lakeville Historical Society on Wednesday night.\u00c2\u00a0 To be certain that Don Lewis and Sue Wieber Nourse got all the facts right, a cadre of hard-shelled guests came along to keep the Turtle Journal team on the straight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/9219"}],"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=9219"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9238,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9219\/revisions\/9238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}