{"id":708,"date":"2009-06-02T08:59:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:59:18","slug":"reptile-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Reptile report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my way bicycling (for the first time in several weeks) to work yesterday, I saw a big snapping turtle in the parking lot by the canoe launch area in Nahanton Park. It wasn&#8217;t really remarkably big for a snapping turtle, maybe with a shell the size of a dinner plate, but even that&#8217;s much too big to want to mess with. I got a couple of good pictures with my iPhone:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/06\/snapper_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nLook at these legs, when it decided to get up and move off! I didn&#8217;t realize those things could stand up so high off the ground. That&#8217;s more what I expect from a land tortoise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2009\/06\/snapper_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way bicycling (for the first time in several weeks) to work yesterday, I saw a big snapping turtle in the parking lot by the canoe launch area in Nahanton Park. It wasn&#8217;t really remarkably big for a snapping turtle, maybe with a shell the size of a dinner plate, but even that&#8217;s much &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reptile report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}