{"id":123909,"date":"2025-10-15T15:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123909\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:41:17","slug":"the-welcoming-turtle-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/123909\/","title":{"rendered":"The Welcoming Turtle | Wildlife Photographer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Stout&#8217;s Image<\/p>\n<p>Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Common snapping turtles have a fearsome reputation.<\/p>\n<p>But Jake finds them to be calm and inquisitive.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s photographed them in this lake for over four years. In that time, he\u2019s discovered the turtles\u2019 dramatically different personalities and behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>Snapping turtles weigh up to 20 kilogrammes (44 pounds). They can strike with speed and deliver a powerful bite when they\u2019re hunting, though they\u2019re also scavengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Stout&#8217;s Image Jake Stout (USA) encounters a snapping turtle as it glides over lake vegetation in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[365,362,363,364,366,18,117,19,17,29690,74888,74887,22708,74886,74885],"class_list":{"0":"post-123909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-nature-photography","18":"tag-wildlife-competition","19":"tag-wildlife-images","20":"tag-wildlife-photographer-of-the-year","21":"tag-wildphoto","22":"tag-wpy-exhibition"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}