{"id":1446,"date":"2004-06-19T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/06\/19\/tortoise-sitting\/"},"modified":"2004-06-19T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T19:01:26","slug":"tortoise-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/06\/19\/tortoise-sitting\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortoise sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a361'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So for the last couple of weeks, while a Berkeley friend has been out<br \/>\nof town, I&#8217;ve been housesitting and taking care of her tortoises.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI now know all sorts of stuff about feeding and caring for tortoises<br \/>\nthat I didn&#8217;t a while back.<\/p>\n<p>This is Erasmus.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/natep\/erasmus.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\">&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>These are Erasmus and Beatrice, having a drink.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/natep\/beatriceerasmus.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"640\" border=\"0\">&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>When I tell people that I am pet-sitting a pack of tortoises (because<br \/>\nthere are also three babies, Scipio, Phoebe, and Cromwell), they are<br \/>\ninfinitely amused.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not sure quite why.&nbsp; It seems to be<br \/>\nrelated to the idea of having reptiles as pets, I think.&nbsp; Maybe<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s something there with herpetophobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for the last couple of weeks, while a Berkeley friend has been out of town, I&#8217;ve been housesitting and taking care of her tortoises.&nbsp; I now know all sorts of stuff about feeding and caring for tortoises that I didn&#8217;t a while back. This is Erasmus. &#8220;&gt; These are Erasmus and Beatrice, having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day2day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-nk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}