{"id":13877,"date":"2019-11-13T05:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T12:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2019-11-01T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T20:25:53","slug":"desert-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=13877","title":{"rendered":"Desert Tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=13878\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13878\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13878\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=13878\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?fit=1134%2C692&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1134,692\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 7 Plus&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1569490649&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;20&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00073099415204678&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?fit=700%2C427&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13878\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?resize=700%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?w=1134&amp;ssl=1 1134w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?resize=300%2C183&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?resize=768%2C469&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/CAjAAHuFSXmek1fHKVtlaA_thumb_11952.jpg?resize=1024%2C625&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><strong>&#8220;I got lucky and saw a Desert Tortoise.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Or said another way:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;I have hiked in the desert enough so that statistically I was likely to see a Desert Tortoise.&#8221;<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Back on September 26 I saw this guy on the National Trail in South Mountain Park. He was about the size of an iPad, but fatter. It was my first sighting of a wild Desert Tortoise ever and I&#8217;ve been hiking in their desert habitat for more than twenty years. It made me think of <a href=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=635\">Howard Rotter<\/a> of blessed memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I got lucky and saw a Desert Tortoise.&#8221; Or said another way: &#8220;I have hiked in the desert enough so that statistically I was likely to see a Desert Tortoise.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,5],"tags":[204,229,705],"class_list":["post-13877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mt-whitney","category-simon-says","tag-arizona","tag-hiking","tag-tortoise"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3BP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13879,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13877\/revisions\/13879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}