{"id":884,"date":"2012-07-21T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holdenbeach.me\/?p=884"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T00:14:44","slug":"sea-turtle-receives-experimental-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holden.me\/2012\/07\/21\/sea-turtle-receives-experimental-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Turtle Receives Experimental Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veterinarians successfully completed experimental skull surgery on a green sea turtle Thursday at N.C. State University in Raleigh. They say the turtle, which is too young to easily tell its gender, needed the operation to close a three-inch gash to the head that had exposed the protective membrane sheathing its tiny brain.<\/p>\n<p>The turtle called Holden III washed up a month ago on Holden Beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"NC State veterinarians perform experimental surgery to repair endangered sea turtle\u2019s skull\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/nc-state-veterinarians-perform-experimental-surgery-to-repair-endangered-sea-turtles-skull\/2012\/07\/19\/gJQAhztywW_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/nc-state-veterinarians-perform-experimental-surgery-to-repair-endangered-sea-turtles-skull\/2012\/07\/19\/gJQAhztywW_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterinarians successfully completed experimental skull surgery on a green sea turtle Thursday at N.C. State University in Raleigh. They say the turtle, which is too young to easily&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}