{"id":9514,"date":"2024-09-05T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9514"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T12:25:25","slug":"gopher-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/gopher-tortoise.html","title":{"rendered":"Gopher tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nThis gopher tortoise was on the edge of the pavement.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Gopher tortoise, 2024-08-10, 10:23:19,\" name=\"GT:Gopher-tortoise-102319\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-08-10--quarterman-road-deadfall-chainsaw\/20240810_102319.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-08-10--quarterman-road-deadfall-chainsaw\/20240810_102319.jpg\" alt=\"[Gopher tortoise, 2024-08-10,  10:23:19, 30.9942320, -83.2697720]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2024-08-10--quarterman-road-deadfall-chainsaw\/20240810_102319.html\">Gopher tortoise, 2024-08-10, 10:23:19,<\/a> <span style=\"font-size:80%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/viewer?mid=1n4Q4zSxir_T8o4kdkOCRxeCeOrA&#038;z=18&#038;ll=30.9942320%2C-83.2697720\">30.9942320, -83.2697720<\/a>\r\n<\/span>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nSince the <em>Gopherus polyphemus<\/em>\r\nwas not actually crossing Quarterman Road and seemed to be in no danger,\r\nI took a picture and moved on.\r\n<p>\r\nAs you probably know, gophers are a keystone species, whose burrows\r\nhost up to 300 other species, from insects to rattlesnakes.\r\n<p>\r\nThis was on the way to the\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/neighborly-morning-chainsawing-2024-08-10.html\">\r\nNeighborly morning chainsawing 2024-08-10<\/a>.\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9507\">\r\nhttp:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9507<\/a>\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This gopher tortoise was on the edge of the pavement. Gopher tortoise, 2024-08-10, 10:23:19, 30.9942320, -83.2697720 Since the Gopherus polyphemus was not actually crossing Quarterman Road and seemed to be in no danger, I took a picture and moved on. As you probably know, gophers are a keystone species, whose burrows host up to 300 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[500,6,196],"tags":[3,2827,770,5,2,2760,917,2806],"class_list":["post-9514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gopher-tortoise","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-reptiles","tag-georgia","tag-gopher-tortoise","tag-gopherus-polyphemus","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-quarterman-road","tag-reptiles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2ts","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514","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=9514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9515,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9514\/revisions\/9515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}