{"id":1527,"date":"2012-06-02T16:27:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T23:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2012-06-02T16:27:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T23:27:39","slug":"compost-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Compost surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to dump some weeds on the compost pile between the shed and the wetlands today and almost crapped my pants.  This momma is only about half the size (shell a little over a foot long) of the snapping turtles in the lake where I grew up.  But she still made me jump.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/20120602snapperx1200.JPG\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/20120602snapperx600.JPG\" alt=\"snapper in the compost\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was there about 4 hours laying eggs.  Gestation is two to three months.  Guess I&#8217;ll be dumping weeds elsewhere this summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/20120602snappereggsx1200.JPG\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/images\/20120602snappereggsx600.JPG\" alt=\"snapper in the compost\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to dump some weeds on the compost pile between the shed and the wetlands today and almost crapped my pants. This momma is only about half the size (shell a little over a foot long) of the snapping turtles in the lake where I grew up. But she still made me jump. She &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=1527\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Compost surprise&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1530,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions\/1530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}