{"id":14635,"date":"2015-07-29T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14635"},"modified":"2015-07-29T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:55:32","slug":"the-last-great-abingdon-tortoise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=14635","title":{"rendered":"Preserving the last Giant Abingdon Tortoise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15072901.jpg\" alt=\"Last Great Abingdon Tortoise\" \/><br \/>\nSearch &#8216;Abingdon&#8217; in the Guiness Book of Records and there are now more entries thanks to the longest loom band. Radley College &nbsp;are also in there with the fastest Treadmill 100 miles team run.<\/p>\n<p>There is also <b>Most endangered animal<\/b> and <b>Rarest reptile<\/b>. On further investigation this turns out to be `Lonesome George&#8217; the giant tortoise <i>Geochelone elephantopus abingdoni<\/i> from the Pinta or Abingdon Island in the Galapagos Islands. George died in 2012 of natural causes.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15072902.jpg\" alt=\"Last Great Abingdon Tortoise\" \/><br \/>\nGeorge can now be viewed at The American Museum of Natural History.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag15\/15072903.jpg\" alt=\"Last Great Abingdon Tortoise\" \/><br \/>\nThey have done a Good Job &#8216;Preserving Lonesome George&#8217; for future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search &#8216;Abingdon&#8217; in the Guiness Book of Records and there are now more entries thanks to the longest loom band. Radley College &nbsp;are also in there with the fastest Treadmill 100 miles team run. There is also Most endangered animal and Rarest reptile. On further investigation this turns out to be `Lonesome George&#8217; the giant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,31,103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal","category-celebrities","category-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}