{"id":2590,"date":"2006-05-30T08:02:10","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T12:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/what-the-tortoise-taught-us\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T12:02:10","slug":"what-the-tortoise-taught-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/what-the-tortoise-taught-us\/","title":{"rendered":"what the tortoise taught us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished <em>Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile<\/em>, the fictional thoughts of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilbert_White\">Gilbert White<\/a>&#8216;s pet tortoise. Verlyn Klinkenborg has really captured the pace of the tortoise&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>The tortoise\/taught us rhyme doesn&#8217;t work if you&#8217;re Scottish; we pronounce it <em>tor-toys<\/em>, not <em>taw-TUSS<\/em>. Lewis Carroll didn&#8217;t think beyond the RP.<\/p>\n<p>In memory of Timothy, I&#8217;ve geotagged this post with the location of a bridge in a nearby ravine, near which a little turtle used to snooze in the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile, the fictional thoughts of Gilbert White&#8216;s pet tortoise. Verlyn Klinkenborg has really captured the pace of the tortoise&#8217;s life. The tortoise\/taught us rhyme doesn&#8217;t work if you&#8217;re Scottish; we pronounce it tor-toys, not taw-TUSS. Lewis Carroll didn&#8217;t think beyond the RP. In memory of Timothy, I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1056,85,481,1433,650,1312,171,365,168,115,1071,1033,142,1269,309],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bridge","tag-car","tag-cat","tag-geo","tag-ink","tag-link","tag-memory","tag-red","tag-scottish","tag-shed","tag-tim","tag-tort","tag-turtle","tag-ugh","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-FM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}