{"id":350470,"date":"2026-07-23T22:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350470\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:29:12","slug":"turtle-crossing-signs-placed-around-sturgeon-city-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350470\/","title":{"rendered":"Turtle crossing signs placed around Sturgeon City in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; One Eastern Carolina park has added turtle crossing signs to remind drivers to look out for them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The signs were placed around Sturgeon City in Jacksonville, which is right next to the New River and is home to wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">City officials added the signs in areas where the speed limit is already 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sturgeon City\u2019s Facebook page says those who\u2019d like to save a turtle crossing the road should pick it up and take it in the direction it is heading.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9024,143409,88635,90385,116,118,117,4481,65652,1854,3032,19149,13730,143404,31218,143405,143406,143408,143407,4624,4480],"class_list":["post-350470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-crossing","tag-eastern-north-carolina","tag-enc","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nc","tag-new-river","tag-north-carolina","tag-park","tag-signs","tag-speed-limit","tag-sturgeon-city","tag-turtle","tag-turtle-crossing","tag-turtle-crossing-signs","tag-turtle-sign","tag-turtle-signs","tag-wildlife","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350470","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=350470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}