{"id":26802,"date":"2021-01-14T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/new-zealand-city-closes-busy-road-to-protect-sea-lion-mother-and-pup"},"modified":"2021-01-14T11:52:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:52:59","slug":"new-zealand-city-closes-busy-road-for-weeks-to-protect-sea-lion-mother-and-pup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26802","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand city closes busy road for weeks to protect sea lion mother and pup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after pair take up residence at golf course and regularly need to navigate traffic to get to the nearest beach<\/p>\n<p>The second largest city on New Zealand\u2019s South Island has closed a popular road for an entire month in order for a sea lion to nest safely with its pup.<\/p>\n<p>Dunedin City council said<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DunedinCityCouncil\/\"> in a Facebook post<\/a> it would close John Wilson Drive above the city\u2019s St Claire beach for a month to allow \u201csome special residents to use the road safely\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/new-zealand-city-closes-busy-road-to-protect-sea-lion-mother-and-pup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after pair take up residence at golf course and regularly need to navigate traffic to get to the nearest beachThe second largest city on New Zealand\u2019s South Island has closed a popular road for an entire month in order for a sea lion to nest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1814,"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":[265,41,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","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\/26802","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\/1814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26804,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26802\/revisions\/26804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}