{"id":937,"date":"2009-11-14T06:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T14:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2009-11-14T06:23:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T14:23:59","slug":"pass-the-skillet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/14\/pass-the-skillet\/","title":{"rendered":"pass the skillet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to visit lovely Costa Rica, now might be the time. Before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/14\/science\/earth\/14turtles.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">&#8220;Even before scientists found temperatures creeping upward over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans\u2019 penchant for eating turtle eggs, considered a delicacy here. But climate change may deal the fatal blow to an animal that has dwelled in the Pacific for 150 million years.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, efforts are underway to <em>save<\/em> the little buggers. &#8220;In places like Playa Junquillal, an hour south of here, local youths are paid $2 a night to scoop up newly laid eggs and move them to a hatchery where they are shaded and irrigated to maintain a nest temperature of 29.7 degrees Celsius (85.4), which will yield both genders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be easier to bulldoze ill-placed &#8220;developments&#8221; and give the Costa Rican&#8217;s coupons for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eggbeaters.com\/index.jsp\">Egg Beaters?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to visit lovely Costa Rica, now might be the time. Before it&#8217;s too late. The New York Times reports: &#8220;Even before scientists found temperatures creeping upward over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans\u2019 penchant for eating turtle eggs, considered a delicacy [&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-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":940,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}