{"id":5100,"date":"2009-07-09T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5100"},"modified":"2009-07-09T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T11:44:16","slug":"nature_must_not_win_the_game_she_must_lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/nature_must_not_win_the_game_she_must_lose.html","title":{"rendered":"Nature Must Not Win The Game . . . She Must Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/not_only_do_they_poop_everywhere.html\">birds<\/a>, now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/07\/09\/2009-07-09_jfk_airport_runway_taken_over_by_turtles.html\">turtles<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Port Authority workers rushed to the shell-covered runway about 8:30 a.m. and scooped up 78 diamondback terrapins that had left the waters of Jamaica Bay scouting a spot to breed, said Port Authority spokesman John Kelly.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots from various airlines shared the news with stuck passengers who had to wait up to 90 minutes for their flights to take off so the turtles could land in a safe place.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/queens\/jfk\/index.htm\">JFK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First birds, now turtles: Port Authority workers rushed to the shell-covered runway about 8:30 a.m. and scooped up 78 diamondback terrapins that had left the waters of Jamaica Bay scouting a spot to breed, said Port Authority spokesman John Kelly. Pilots from various airlines shared the news with stuck passengers who had to wait up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens","category-the_natural_world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5101,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5100\/revisions\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}