{"id":18358,"date":"2020-08-30T20:19:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T00:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18358"},"modified":"2020-10-27T01:43:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:43:31","slug":"todays-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18358","title":{"rendered":"SITY: Today&#8217;s Turtle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was sitting outside, absorbing a little sun, when suddenly a turtle stepped out onto the driveway. In all the years we&#8217;ve lived here, I have never seen a turtle on our property before. I called the rest of the family out to witness this marvel. We all oohed and ahhhed, and I took the turtle&#8217;s picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/turtle-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18361\" width=\"471\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/turtle-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/turtle-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/turtle-768x575.jpg 768w, http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/turtle.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><figcaption>Painted Turtle<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My husband questioned whether we should take it across the road to the place where there&#8217;s usually standing water. I wondered, too, but knowing how bad humans are at figuring out animal wants and needs, I decided to let the turtle find its own way. There were several directions it could have gone to find water, including a route under the road, and that&#8217;s the trajectory it was on. I went outside later and it was nowhere to be seen. I hope it found its way home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sitting outside, absorbing a little sun, when suddenly a turtle stepped out onto the driveway. In all the years we&#8217;ve lived here, I have never seen a turtle on our property before. I called the rest of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=18358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[124,277,621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18365,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18358\/revisions\/18365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}