{"id":18793,"date":"2020-05-29T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/new-zealand-beaches-turn-red-as-lobsters-dig-in-to-the-death"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T01:16:51","slug":"new-zealand-beaches-turn-red-as-lobsters-dig-in-to-the-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18793","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand beaches turn red as lobsters dig in to the death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swaths of coastline covered with squat lobster, which cling to the sand at high tide and then perish<\/p>\n<p>The sandy beaches of Otago in the deep south of New Zealand have turned blood red after millions of squat lobster died in a mass stranding.<\/p>\n<p>Locals in the small coastal communities of Broad Bay and Edwards Bay, who have seen whole swaths of coastline saturated in colour, reported the phenomenon to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/ninetonoon\/audio\/2018748168\/squat-lobsters-seeing-red-in-otago\">national broadcaster<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/29\/new-zealand-beaches-turn-red-as-lobsters-dig-in-to-the-death\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swaths of coastline covered with squat lobster, which cling to the sand at high tide and then perishThe sandy beaches of Otago in the deep south of New Zealand have turned blood red after millions of squat lobster died in a mass stranding.Locals in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,468,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18805,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions\/18805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}