{"id":9421,"date":"2024-05-18T15:46:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T19:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9421"},"modified":"2024-05-18T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T19:46:34","slug":"turtle-2024-05-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/turtle-2024-05-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Turtle 2024-05-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nWhat kind of turtle is this?\r\nIt&#8217;s about 5 inches long, so presumably quite young.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Lively small turtle\" name=\"ST:Lively-small-turtle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-10--turtle\/turtle.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-10--turtle\/big\/turtle.jpg\"  alt=\"[Lively small turtle]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-05-10--turtle\/turtle.html\">Lively small turtle<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThe triple ridges with radiating patterns look to me like an Alligator snapping turtle, <em>Macroclemys temminckii<\/em>.\r\nI don&#8217;t see anything else among the <a href=\"https:\/\/reptilehere.com\/turtles\/species\/georgia\/\">29 turtles of Georgia<\/a> that is even close.\r\n<p>\r\nI don&#8217;t know what it was doing out in the open, 500 feet from the nearest water, which is our cypress swamp.\r\n<p>\r\nAnyway, it provided yet another opportunity to remind our dogs: no turtles!\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What kind of turtle is this? It&#8217;s about 5 inches long, so presumably quite young. Lively small turtle The triple ridges with radiating patterns look to me like an Alligator snapping turtle, Macroclemys temminckii. I don&#8217;t see anything else among the 29 turtles of Georgia that is even close. I don&#8217;t know what it was [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,196],"tags":[3439,3233,3,23,3193,5,2,3440,2760,2806,2810,3063],"class_list":["post-9421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-reptiles","tag-alligator-snapping-turtle","tag-blondie","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-honeybun","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-macroclemys-temminckii","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-reptiles","tag-river","tag-sky"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2rX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9423,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9421\/revisions\/9423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}