{"id":396406,"date":"2025-11-22T07:14:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396406\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T07:14:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T07:14:31","slug":"endangered-tortoise-inspires-jacksonville-conservation-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/396406\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered tortoise inspires Jacksonville conservation movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Every morning, Brett Desser climbs the stairs of her Jacksonville home to wake someone special.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScooter!\u201d she says as she goes up to the second floor.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not a dog pawing at the door, or a cat curled on a windowsill, or even a child wrapped in blankets.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, she\u2019s heading to greet Scooter \u2013 her endangered African spurred tortoise who, true to her \u201csassy\u201d personality, prefers to sleep in until noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWS Every morning, Brett Desser climbs the stairs of her Jacksonville home to wake someone special. \u201cScooter!\u201d she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":396407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3425,3188,723,7310,7926,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-396406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-fl","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-pets","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115592119163751679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}