{"id":21074,"date":"2020-07-28T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/beloved-eel-mcpherson-disappears-from-new-zealand-pond-during-massive-storm"},"modified":"2020-07-28T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:44:07","slug":"beloved-eel-mcpherson-disappears-from-new-zealand-pond-during-massive-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21074","title":{"rendered":"Beloved Eel McPherson disappears from New Zealand pond during massive storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners hope the friendly shortfin eel, which delighted children in Whang\u0101rei for 35 years, made it out to sea during deluge<\/p>\n<p>A shortfin eel named Eel McPherson, who was beloved by a New Zealand city for 35 years, has bid bon voyage to its backyard pool and disappeared during a once-in-500-years flood.<\/p>\n<p>The eel was kept by a Whang\u0101rei man, George Campbell, for decades \u2013 first at a fish museum that he ran during the 1990s and later at his home \u2013 said Campbell\u2019s granddaughter, Alyce Charlesworth.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/28\/beloved-eel-mcpherson-disappears-from-new-zealand-pond-during-massive-storm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners hope the friendly shortfin eel, which delighted children in Whang\u0101rei for 35 years, made it out to sea during delugeA shortfin eel named Eel McPherson, who was beloved by a New Zealand city for 35 years, has bid bon voyage to its backyard pool a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"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-21074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074","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\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21075,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21074\/revisions\/21075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}