{"id":328,"date":"2014-10-30T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T13:54:15","slug":"blandings-turtle-emydoidea-blandingii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Blanding\u2019s turtle <em>(Emydoidea blandingii)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_329\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Blandings_turtle_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Blandings_turtle_01-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Blanding's turtle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Blandings_turtle_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Blandings_turtle_01-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Blandings_turtle_01.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Pamela Freeman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Blanding\u2019s turtle <em>(Emydoidea blandingii)\u00a0<\/em>is a long-lived, medium-sized turtle. Its conservation status in Minnesota is threatened and it is listed as a species in greatest conservation need. Threats include habitat degradation and road mortality.\u00a0It occurs mostly in the eastern half of the state but also in scattered locations in western Minnesota. It is seldom seen because it is the first turtle to submerge when disturbed and the last to emerge after being disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>This species is identified by the smooth, high domed shell and by the bright yellow chin and throat.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Reptiles\/Blandings_turtle.html\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Reptiles\/Blandings_turtle.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/minnesotaseasons.com\/Reptiles\/Blandings_turtle.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=328\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanding\u2019s turtle (Emydoidea blandingii)\u00a0is a long-lived, medium-sized turtle. Its conservation status in Minnesota is threatened and it is listed as a species in greatest conservation need. Threats include habitat degradation and road mortality.\u00a0It occurs mostly in the eastern half of the state but also in scattered locations in western Minnesota. It is seldom seen because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[122,123],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}