{"id":6224,"date":"2012-06-25T13:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=6224"},"modified":"2012-06-25T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T20:28:42","slug":"galapagos-r-i-p-lonesome-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/galapagos-r-i-p-lonesome-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Galapagos: R.I.P. Lonesome George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the last purebred Pinta Island giant tortoise, Lonesome George, died at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Seeing as I&#8217;ve been blogging about the Galapagos and had a chance to see Lonesome George in captivity at the beginning of June, here&#8217;s an R.I.P. photo homage. They say he was over 100 years old, although his exact age (while alive) could not be determined. He was found in 1971 and another of his sub-species has never been located.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gala_LonesomeGeorge_RIP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6225\" title=\"Gala_LonesomeGeorge_RIP\" src=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gala_LonesomeGeorge_RIP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gala_LonesomeGeorge_RIP.jpg 350w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gala_LonesomeGeorge_RIP-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Gala_LonesomeGeorge_RIP-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rest in paradise, Lonesome George!<\/p>\n<p>Added: If you&#8217;d like to learn more about Lonesome George, the guide for my Cormorant Cruise, Harry Jimenez, has a new blog with a substantial entry about L.G. <a href=\"http:\/\/galapagosecolodge.blogspot.ca\/2012\/06\/lonesome-george.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the last purebred Pinta Island giant tortoise, Lonesome George, died at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island in the Galapagos. Seeing as I&#8217;ve been blogging about the Galapagos and had a chance to see Lonesome George in captivity at the beginning of June, here&#8217;s an R.I.P. photo homage. They say he&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/galapagos-r-i-p-lonesome-george\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Galapagos: R.I.P. Lonesome George<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galapagos-2012","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6224"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6224\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}