{"id":3732,"date":"2010-04-15T12:41:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3732"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:44:09","slug":"the-newest-pennington-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=3732","title":{"rendered":"The Newest Pennington girl&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3731\" title=\"Natalie 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-3-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie 3\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-3-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-3.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last weekend, McCanless decided to save all of the baby turtles in Hartsville.\u00a0 She wanted to go to PetSmart and purchase a huge aquarium, capture as many baby turtles as she could find and save them before they had to cross the dangerous road.\u00a0 (Unfortunately, every year about this time, we find way too many baby turtles who don&#8217;t make it into the lake.\u00a0 The mommy turtles love to lay eggs in our front yard, and McCanless hates to find the flattened little turtles in the road in front of our house who don&#8217;t make it across the road and into the lake.)\u00a0 Last week, she made it her mission to save as many as she could.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3733\" title=\"Natalie 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-2-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-2-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was until we spoke to Jake, a turtle expert at PetSmart, who told us that once in captivity, the turtles would never learn how to live on their own.\u00a0 Mommy refused to capture a baby turtle and keep it indefinitely, so that was out of the question.\u00a0 McCanless&#8217; dream squashed, much like the poor baby turtles, she cried.\u00a0 And cried.\u00a0 Until we hit the Betta Isle and before us stood a tower of\u00a0 pretty, fluorescent, flowing and girlish fish.\u00a0 Perfect for McCanless.\u00a0 Low maintenance, no huge aquarium, no bubbles, no worries.\u00a0 Perfect for Mommy.\u00a0 Jake even told me that these fish sometimes live in mud puddles, which means no burial services in the near future for us.\u00a0 And so, my little turtle conservationist has turned into an aquatic fanatic.\u00a0\u00a0 For now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3734\" title=\"Natalie 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Natalie 1\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Natalie-1.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Meet Natalie, the newest Pennington girl.\u00a0 (Well, we&#8217;re assuming &#8220;she&#8221; is a girl, because that&#8217;s what McCanless says she is.)\u00a0 Have you ever met a fish named Natalie?\u00a0 Me either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, McCanless decided to save all of the baby turtles in Hartsville.\u00a0 She wanted to go to PetSmart and purchase a huge aquarium, capture as many baby turtles as she could find and save them before they had to cross the dangerous road.\u00a0 (Unfortunately, every year about this time, we find way too many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3732"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3732\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}