{"id":2881,"date":"2010-05-31T17:53:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T22:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2010-05-31T18:35:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T23:35:36","slug":"i-met-a-turtle-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/31\/i-met-a-turtle-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"I Met a Turtle This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Turtle by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4657361561\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4060\/4657361561_c7071f5f9b.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turtle 2 by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4657984624\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid red;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4062\/4657984624_dc09484c4c.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turtle 3 by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4657985690\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid red;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4014\/4657985690_102cee4e76.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle 3\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turtle 4 by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4657368743\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid red;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4039\/4657368743_6ea703bfba.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turtle 5 by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4657369667\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4045\/4657369667_102f7065b7.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle 5\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turtle 6 by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4657370847\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4058\/4657370847_a502995c07.jpg\" alt=\"Turtle 6\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"A Turtle. He needs to find a pond. by stephenkp67, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stephenpickering\/4656300334\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4001\/4656300334_85776f1952.jpg\" alt=\"A Turtle. He needs to find a pond.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walking this morning with the dogs, we came across a turtle in the grass near the woods. I remember a friend of mine posted some photos recently of turtles, so I decided to sit down, take a break and see if I could snap him (no pun intended). \u00a0I like the last two the best when I got closer to his face. I wish I would have gotten even a few inches closer, but really felt like he was going to snap me! You know it was relaxing, just gazing at him there. I rarely think about turtles. There&#8217;s so many of them around here with all the ponds. But when I stopped to gaze upon him, I really felt the sense of another being there. What was he thinking? What was he feeling? It was sort of a &#8220;quasi&#8221; spiritual experience. Very relaxing. Maybe that&#8217;s what&#8217;s so addictive about photography, the relaxing feeling you get from really looking at things in a calm way. So I &#8220;beamed&#8221; the last photo straight up to flickr from my iPhone, which instantly &#8220;tweeted&#8221; it to my Twitter. It was ironic: when I came back home I had a couple of responses. One was: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Niterat\/status\/15109829737\">&#8220;perhaps he wants to lead you on a journey of self discovery&#8221;<\/a> which I thought was rather ironic, considering the feelings I&#8217;d had while taking it. Lovely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking this morning with the dogs, we came across a turtle in the grass near the woods. I remember a friend of mine posted some photos recently of turtles, so I decided to sit down, take a break and see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/31\/i-met-a-turtle-this-morning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[307,306],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-animals","tag-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}