{"id":38924,"date":"2021-11-15T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/new-zealand-possum-holds-woman-hostage-at-her-home"},"modified":"2021-11-15T12:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T03:36:10","slug":"new-zealand-possum-holds-woman-hostage-at-her-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38924","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand possum holds woman \u2018hostage\u2019 at her home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the animal, thought to be either an escaped pet or a juvenile, kept charging at the woman when she left her house<\/p>\n<p>A possum has been released without charge after it held a woman \u201chostage\u201d at her home, New Zealand police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers received a call late on Sunday night from a distressed woman who said \u201ca possum was holding her hostage\u201d at her home in the South Island city of Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/15\/new-zealand-possum-holds-woman-hostage-at-her-home\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the animal, thought to be either an escaped pet or a juvenile, kept charging at the woman when she left her houseA possum has been released without charge after it held a woman \u201chostage\u201d at her home, New Zealand police say.Officers received &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[265,41,56,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","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\/38924","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38925,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38924\/revisions\/38925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}