{"id":47633,"date":"2022-08-19T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/seal-breaks-into-new-zealand-home-traumatises-cat-and-hangs-out-on-couch"},"modified":"2022-08-19T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T02:58:02","slug":"seal-breaks-into-new-zealand-home-traumatises-cat-and-hangs-out-on-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47633","title":{"rendered":"Seal breaks into New Zealand home, traumatises cat and hangs out on couch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young fur seal slipped into marine biologist\u2019s home through a catflap before spending more than two hours inside<\/p>\n<p>A curious young seal has been returned to the sea after breaking into a New Zealand home, harassing the resident cat, hanging about in the hallway for a couple of hours while the children slept upstairs, and miraculously ruining nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The Ross family of Mt Maunganui were more than a little surprised to find the New Zealand fur seal in their home, which is about 150m from the shore, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/seal-breaks-into-new-zealand-home-traumatises-cat-and-hangs-out-on-couch\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young fur seal slipped into marine biologist\u2019s home through a catflap before spending more than two hours insideA curious young seal has been returned to the sea after breaking into a New Zealand home, harassing the resident cat, hanging about in the h&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47633","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=47633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47633\/revisions\/47634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}