{"id":997,"date":"2010-05-27T21:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2010\/05\/27\/the-snapping-turtle-gett\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T21:57:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T01:57:00","slug":"the-snapping-turtle-gett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2010\/05\/27\/the-snapping-turtle-gett\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snapping Turtle  &#8211; GETT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working as a ranger necessarily entails the protection of the park&#8217;s resources &#8211; some of which may be covered in swamp grime, armed with steel-trap jaws and wanting absolutely nothing to do with your well-intentioned heroics. On the 26th of May, I was riding along in a patrol vehicle with my supervisor, Ranger Ryan Levins,  when we spotted one such angry resource apparently sunning itself in the middle of the road &#8211; which is no place for a slow-moving snapping turtle to be.<\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 85%\">&#8220;Where are you going, buddy?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is actually our second encounter with reptiles lying in the middle  of park roads (the first being a very large black snake), and It&#8217;s my understanding that the local fox cubs and  various other creatures at Gettysburg have the same bad habit of wanting  to sleep on the still-warm asphalt during the night. This usually doesn&#8217;t end well for the animals, so the turtle was lucky that we happened to come along. He yet shall live to be ill-tempered and scary for another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working as a ranger necessarily entails the protection of the park&#8217;s resources &#8211; some of which may be covered in swamp grime, armed with steel-trap&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/2010\/05\/27\/the-snapping-turtle-gett\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Snapping Turtle  &#8211; GETT<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,72,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-182","category-gettsyburg-nmp","category-layla-schade","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Paul Paire","author_link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/author\/paire\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/prorangerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}