{"id":4024,"date":"2024-12-05T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2024-12-04T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T20:36:25","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-lil-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-lil-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketch of the Week: Little Florida Turtle in a Tank (Nov 26, 2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2580-1024x772.jpeg\" alt=\"A pencil sketch of a small semi-aquatic Florida turtle with a spiky shell and quiet dignity.\" class=\"wp-image-4025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2580-1024x772.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2580-300x226.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2580-768x579.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_2580.jpeg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw this little guy in a display tank at a ranger station in Apalachicola, Florida. To me it was a &#8220;fancy slider&#8221; (in Michigan you mostly see painted turtles&#8211;which tend to be big&#8211;and red-eared sliders, which are this guy&#8217;s size, but with a smooth shell). But apparently he&#8217;s really a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biologicaldiversity.org\/species\/reptiles\/Barbours_map_turtle\/index.html\">Barbour&#8217;s map turtle<\/a>. Like the sliders and painted turtles I&#8217;m used to, he has extremely pretty yellow pipping all along his body (which I didn&#8217;t even try to capture). What I was really taken with was that spiky shell, and his tiny dignity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"A photograph of a small Barbour's map turtle in Apalachicola, Florida.\" class=\"wp-image-4027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/IMG_1066-1200x900.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this little guy in a display tank at a ranger station in Apalachicola, Florida. To me it was a &#8220;fancy slider&#8221; (in Michigan you mostly see painted turtles&#8211;which tend to be big&#8211;and red-eared sliders, which are this guy&#8217;s size, but with a smooth shell). But apparently he&#8217;s really a Barbour&#8217;s map turtle. Like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2024\/12\/sketch-of-the-week-lil-turtle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sketch of the Week: Little Florida Turtle in a Tank (Nov 26, 2024)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[1064,113,1026,742,904,572,1062,1025,1024,1061],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/113601611063816463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4028,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/4028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}