{"id":9998,"date":"2012-03-24T11:28:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9998"},"modified":"2012-03-24T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T16:55:05","slug":"first-basking-diamondback-terrapin-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=9998","title":{"rendered":"First Basking Diamondback Terrapin of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sippican-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10040\" title=\"sippican 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sippican-480.jpg\" alt=\"sippican 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sippican-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sippican-480-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Female Diamondback Terrapin Basking in Sippican Harbor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse spotted the first diamondback terrapins basking in Sippican Harbor off Buzzards Bay on the South Coast of Massachusetts at low tide on\u00c2\u00a0Thursday afternoon, March 22nd.\u00c2\u00a0 An early spring emergence for diamondback terrapins in the Great White North.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/first-terrapin-003-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10021\" title=\"first terrapin 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/first-terrapin-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"first terrapin 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/first-terrapin-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/first-terrapin-003-480-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/sippican-480.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>First 2012 Basking Terrapin in Sippican Harbor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Sue paddled her kayak back to Sippican Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 She discovered a half dozen active terrapins, including a male and female pair.\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing; the water is still cool to the touch, these turtles have just woken from six months of slumber, their biological systems are still trying to adjust, yet IT&#8217;S SPRINGTIME!\u00c2\u00a0 And in spring, as Alfred Lord Tennison tried to teach us, a young turtle&#8217;s fancy lightly\u00c2\u00a0turns to thoughts of love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Diamondback Terrapin Basking in Sippican Harbor Turtle Journal&#8217;s Sue Wieber Nourse spotted the first diamondback terrapins basking in Sippican Harbor off Buzzards Bay on the South Coast of Massachusetts at low tide on\u00c2\u00a0Thursday afternoon, March 22nd.\u00c2\u00a0 An early spring emergence for diamondback terrapins in the Great White North. First 2012 Basking Terrapin in Sippican [&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\/9998"}],"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=9998"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10026,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9998\/revisions\/10026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}