{"id":686,"date":"2013-05-30T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/?p=686"},"modified":"2013-05-30T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T21:58:46","slug":"chasing-turtles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/chasing-turtles\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Turtles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a section of the 56 Bike Trail that crosses under Carmel Country Road and across the river where it is pooled. Sometimes, if nobody has been by for a while, you&#8217;ll see a turtle at the edge of the water, sticking his head up onto the bike path. Today as I came across that section, there was a turtle completely out of the water enjoying the sun. I stopped immediately and tried to take a picture, but my phone was sweaty and I couldn&#8217;t get it to unlock. While I was struggling to wipe it off and unlock it, someone rode by that put the turtle on alert. As soon as my phone unlocked, he bolted into the water. I may never get a good picture of him, but I&#8217;ll keep trying.<\/p>\n<p>I started off my run fairly slowly today, for no particular reason other than I talked myself into a &#8220;rolling start&#8221;. Maybe it worked, because I felt pretty good the whole run. I wasn&#8217;t really fast or anything, but I managed to do pretty well even though I hit a few lights red on my way back up the hill from the bike trail.<\/p>\n<p><iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https:\/\/app.strava.com\/activities\/57189240\/embed\/faa956a65aaee08c8ec75ed8c7396b49745387fa'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a section of the 56 Bike Trail that crosses under Carmel Country Road and across the river where it is pooled. Sometimes, if nobody has been by for a while, you&#8217;ll see a turtle at the edge of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/chasing-turtles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jtalbot.com\/swim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}