{"id":978,"date":"2008-05-12T10:06:02","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/05\/12\/el-grande-tartagua\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T10:06:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T15:06:02","slug":"el-grande-tartagua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/05\/12\/el-grande-tartagua\/","title":{"rendered":"El Grande Tartagua!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped outside this morning to take the trash out, and found that we have a pretty sizeable guest in our yard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-08\/turtle1.jpg\" alt=\"El Grande Tartagua!\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYou may remember a few weeks ago that I brought Bowser home for Evan from OEGE.  This is the real deal!  This turbo-turtle&#8217;s shell is big enough that I could probably use it as a helmet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-08\/turtle2.jpg\" alt=\"El Grande Tartagua!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out this prehistoric tail.  This really IS Bowser!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-08\/turtle3.jpg\" alt=\"El Grande Tartagua!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And unlike a lot of critter guests who make it into the yard (such as the rabbit whose component parts are littering the front yard &#8211; thanks, Easter Bunny!), this one is very much alive.  Xena seems more than a little spooked by it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-08\/turtle4.jpg\" alt=\"El Grande Tartagua!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The turtle is looking around, eating some grass, and going into hiding the moment I shove a camera into its face.  I have no idea where it came from or where it&#8217;s going.  It sure makes an attractive lawn ornament though &#8211; what a serene face.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/hizzouse\/q2-08\/turtle5.jpg\" alt=\"El Grande Tartagua!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since we don&#8217;t have a zoo around here, this poor shellshocked fella has the distinction of being the largest turtle I&#8217;ve ever set eyes on in person.  I&#8217;ve seen turtles aplenty before out here, but never this big.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stepped outside this morning to take the trash out, and found that we have a pretty sizeable guest in our yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}