{"id":6007,"date":"2023-07-19T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2023-07-19T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:33:58","slug":"meet-dr-matt-allender-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/meet-dr-matt-allender-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Dr. Matt Allender Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26<sup>th<\/sup>, Dr. Adamovicz and Sam joined the Lake County team for Blanding\u2019s Bowl. Blanding\u2019s Bowl is an annual get together between local turtle biologists and the Wildlife Epidemiology Laboratory<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6009\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6009\" class=\" wp-image-6009\" src=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/07\/Image-3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. Matt Allender Jr. the Blanding's turtle\" width=\"148\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/07\/Image-3-200x267.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/07\/Image-3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/07\/Image-3-400x533.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/07\/Image-3-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2023\/07\/Image-3.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Matt Allender Jr. the Blanding&#8217;s turtle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>to find as many turtles as possible within a week\u2019s time. People are split up into teams and the team that accumulates the most points (based on turtle species, age, and when last seen) wins. This year the Wildlife Epidemiology Laboratory was put together on a team together and found an unnamed Blanding\u2019s turtle head start (a turtle raised in captivity to increase its\u2019 chances of survival). An unnamed Blanding\u2019s turtles head start is worth many points and an opportunity for the finders to name their turtle. After a long discussion and debate, the team settled on Dr. Matt Allender Jr. in honor of our laboratory\u2019s head PI\/mentor. Meet Dr. Matt Allender Jr.! Isn&#8217;t he such a SCUTIE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 26th, Dr. Adamovicz and Sam joined the Lake County team for Blanding\u2019s Bowl. Blanding\u2019s Bowl is an annual get together between local turtle biologists and the Wildlife Epidemiology Laboratory to find as many turtles as possible within a week\u2019s time. People are split up into teams and the team that accumulates the most  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6010,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions\/6010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/wel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}