{"id":1817,"date":"2015-01-31T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T05:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2015-01-31T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T05:09:34","slug":"painted-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/01\/31\/painted-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Painted Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Painted turtles are common in North America including <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/\" title=\"Canada\">Canada<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1815\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1815\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle.jpg\" alt=\"Midland painted turtles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1815\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Midland painted turtles (<em>Chrysemys picta marginata<\/em>), <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/toronto-zoo\/\" title=\"Toronto Zoo\">Toronto Zoo<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>There are several subspecies of painted turtles, the eastern, midland, southern and western painted turtles. These differ in coloration as well as in size. Painted turtles are aquatic and sort of look like a <a href=\"\/2014\/12\/05\/pond-slider\/\" title=\"Pond Slider\">pond slider<\/a> and have a similar life style.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle2.jpg\" alt=\"Midland painted turtles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1816\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle2.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Midland-Painted-Turtle2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Painted turtles can be kept as pets, but as always with aquatic turtles an appropriate body of water has to be provided for the turtles to swim in.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Painted_turtle\" title=\"Painted turtle\" target=\"_blank\">Painted turtle<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onherps.webs.com\/paintedturtle.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Painted Turtle - Ontario Herps\">Painted Turtle<\/a> &#8211; Ontario Herps.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wildlifeinontario.wordpress.com\/reptiles\/painted-turtle\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Painted turtle | Wildlife in Ontario\">Painted turtle<\/a> Wildlife in Ontario.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinsturtlepage.com\/Care\/caresheet-midland_painted.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Care Sheet - Midland Painted\">Midland Painted Turtle Care Sheet.<\/a><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painted turtles are common in North America including Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,48,50,69,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}