{"id":323942,"date":"2026-06-29T23:02:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323942\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T23:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T23:02:57","slug":"florida-aquarium-returns-rehabilitated-green-sea-turtle-to-gulf-off-anna-maria-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323942\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Aquarium Returns Rehabilitated Green Sea Turtle To Gulf Off Anna Maria Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before going back into the wild, Purple received a PIT tag and microchip for future identification. Manatee County sea turtle volunteers assisted The Florida Aquarium team during Friday\u2019s release off Anna Maria Island.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery sea turtle release reflects months of intensive care and collaboration,\u201d Alyssa Fessett, manager of The Florida Aquarium\u2019s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center, said. \u201cPurple\u2019s recovery is a direct result of that work, and it\u2019s always meaningful to see a patient return to its home healthy and strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before going back into the wild, Purple received a PIT tag and microchip for future identification. Manatee County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-323942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}