{"id":28811,"date":"2021-02-23T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/23\/whale-stranding-new-zealand-farewell-spit-rescue"},"modified":"2021-02-23T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T00:34:12","slug":"rescuers-race-to-save-dozens-of-stranded-pilot-whales-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28811","title":{"rendered":"Rescuers race to save dozens of stranded pilot whales in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 50 long-finned pilot whales became stuck in the shallow water off Farewell Spit, and about 26 have died<\/p>\n<p>A team of experts and volunteers are racing the tides to save a pod of pilot whales stranded at Farewell Spit at the northern tip of New Zealand\u2019s South Island. <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of the roughly 50 long-finned pilot whales have already died since they stranded on Monday, and the remaining animals stayed in the shallows on Tuesday morning despite efforts to move them out to sea. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/23\/whale-stranding-new-zealand-farewell-spit-rescue\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 50 long-finned pilot whales became stuck in the shallow water off Farewell Spit, and about 26 have diedA team of experts and volunteers are racing the tides to save a pod of pilot whales stranded at Farewell Spit at the northern tip of New Zealan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1833,"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":[41,1676,65,468,56,1746,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cetaceans","category-environment","category-marine-life","category-new-zealand","category-whales","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\/28811","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\/1833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28813,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28811\/revisions\/28813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}