{"id":4912,"date":"2026-05-23T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:29:37","slug":"today-is-world-turtle-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4912","title":{"rendered":"World Turtle Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Common-Map-Turtle-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Common Map Turtle\" width=\"249\" height=\"199\" \/>World Turtle Day reminds people to protect tortoises and turtles<\/strong>. Founded by American Tortoise Rescue, the day serves to educate people as to the vulnerability of turtles. Children can visit a website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tortoise.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tortoise<\/a>. Children can learn about the six species of sea turtles protected by the Endangered Species Act at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/sea-turtles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sea Turtles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Turtle Day reminds people to protect tortoises and turtles. Founded by American Tortoise Rescue, the day serves to educate people as to the vulnerability of turtles. Children can visit a website at: Tortoise. Children can learn about the six species of sea turtles protected by the Endangered Species Act at: Sea Turtles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2168,5571,2167],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-american-tortoise-rescue","tag-may-23","tag-world-turtle-day","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29505,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions\/29505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}