{"id":617,"date":"2009-06-15T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=617"},"modified":"2010-01-17T17:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T00:38:00","slug":"thar-be-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/617","title":{"rendered":"thar be turtles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not talk like a pirate week&#8230; I&#8217;m just excited to finally see a turtle.<\/p>\n<p>We been hearing about the desert turtles since before we moved here. There are signs warning you not to run them over. There are roads out here are named after them, &#8220;Turtle Run&#8221;. There are even signs proclaiming love for the turtles. I never see them though&#8230; until yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I was driving back from our property when I saw a rock in the road that looked a lot like a turtle. I stopped to take a look and indeed, it was a turtle. Wow! I have a hard time believing they survive out here. It seems so hostile and they&#8217;re so small.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what one looks like in the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle00.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-618\" title=\"turtle00\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle00-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle00-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle00.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here are a couple of close ups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-619\" title=\"turtle01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle01-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle01-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle01.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(In this picture, I crossed a line and he scrunched up.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-620\" title=\"turtle02\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle02-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle02-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/turtle02.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was another interesting day for wildlife. I got a couple of nice vulture photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulcher00.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-621\" title=\"vulture00\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulcher00-300x234.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulcher00-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulcher00.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulcher01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-622\" title=\"vulture01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/vulcher01-300x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s not talk like a pirate week&#8230; I&#8217;m just excited to finally see a turtle. We been hearing about the desert turtles since before we moved here. There are signs warning you not to run them over. There are roads out here are named after them, &#8220;Turtle Run&#8221;. There are even signs proclaiming love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[159,58,45],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animal-pictures","tag-animals","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}