{"id":449,"date":"2012-05-22T20:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T01:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-05-22T20:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T01:08:36","slug":"well-im-not-sure-what-im-supposed-to-do-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=449","title":{"rendered":"Well, I&#8217;m Not Sure What I&#8217;m Supposed to Do Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_450\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-450\" title=\"Turtle\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/turtle.jpg 985w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh, and I guess I can&#39;t deal with those weeds like I was planning to any day now, either. Thanks a lot, turtle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, I have a good old-fashioned gravelly driveway, not one of your modern paved jobs, and some stupid turtle has decided to bury some eggs in it, in what is probably the second-worst place around here I could think to stick them (the worst would be a few feet over, under where I actually drive over all the time).<\/p>\n<p>The only good news, as you can see from the photo and the fact that the little bugger&#8217;s head has completely disappeared, is that it is a Painted Turtle (temperament: docile, wary) and not a snapping turtle (temperament: crazed mad bastard finger eater).\u00a0 The last turtle I had nest next to my house was one of those, and it is a pain having some turtle hissing and snapping at you whenever you walk by.\u00a0 But now I suppose I have to be careful driving in, lest I drive over a turtle visiting her nest, or worse yet, little baby turtles, neither of which are known for their ability to dodge oncoming vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I have a good old-fashioned gravelly driveway, not one of your modern paved jobs, and some stupid turtle has decided to bury some eggs in it, in what is probably the second-worst place around here I could think to stick them (the worst would be a few feet over, under where I actually drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}