{"id":65835,"date":"2024-07-24T15:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T06:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/race-to-survive-new-zealand-spencer-jones-protected-weka-bird-killed-eaten-contestant-disqualified"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T06:39:05","slug":"reality-tv-contestant-apologises-for-killing-and-eating-protected-new-zealand-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65835","title":{"rendered":"Reality TV contestant apologises for killing and eating protected New Zealand bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American contestant on Race to Survive has apologised for eating a weka, a large, brown flightless bird known for its curiosity<\/p>\n<p>Things got a little too real on the reality TV show Race to Survive when one of the contestants killed and ate a protected New Zealand bird species, prompting a warning from authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The contestants had been warned that certain food groups \u2013 including protected ones \u2013 were off limits. Spencer Jones, who killed and ate the weka, has since apologised, saying, \u201cI made a mistake. It was shortsighted, it was foolish,\u201d according to the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realitytea.com\/2024\/07\/09\/exclusive-race-to-survive-new-zealand-spencer-corry-jones-and-oliver-dev-reveal-details-of-their-shocking-disqualification\/\">RealityTea.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/24\/race-to-survive-new-zealand-spencer-jones-protected-weka-bird-killed-eaten-contestant-disqualified\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American contestant on Race to Survive has apologised for eating a weka, a large, brown flightless bird known for its curiosityThings got a little too real on the reality TV show Race to Survive when one of the contestants killed and ate a protected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"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":[41,71,65,56,520,94,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-television","category-wildlife","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65835","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\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65835\/revisions\/65836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}