{"id":4719,"date":"2014-05-09T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T16:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T17:55:08","slug":"may-9th-2014-day-of-the-tortugas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/may-9th-2014-day-of-the-tortugas\/","title":{"rendered":"May 9th, 2014 &#8211; Day of the Tortugas! by Jessica D&#8217;Ambrosio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First day with the turtles, or <em>tortugas<\/em> in Spanish. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/First-Green-Turtle-300x2251.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4862 alignright\" alt=\"First-Green-Turtle-300x225\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/First-Green-Turtle-300x2251.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>It was amazing! They had us throw out a net that was about 100 meters long. Then we all got in the water to untangle the net and make sure there weren&#8217;t any large knots. We caught a turtle immediately! Lucky for me, I was in the boat with Alice the microbiologist. Therefore, we got to bring the turtle in the boat and take it to shore. It was a juvenille turtle and she was gorgeous! After getting her on shore, we measured her carapace and plastron and recorded them. We also got to tag her and get a tissue sample. We caught 4 green turtles today so it was very exciting. Plus, we got to spend 7 hours on a gorgeous beach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First day with the turtles, or tortugas in Spanish. It was amazing! They had us throw out a net that was about 100 meters long. Then we all got in the water to untangle the net and make sure there weren&#8217;t any large knots. We caught a turtle immediately! Lucky for me, I was in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/may-9th-2014-day-of-the-tortugas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 9th, 2014 &#8211; Day of the Tortugas! by Jessica D&#8217;Ambrosio<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-study-abroad","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9429,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/9429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}