{"id":75519,"date":"2025-12-05T11:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/05\/baby-fur-seal-wanders-into-bar-in-new-zealand"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T02:18:22","slug":"baby-fur-seal-wanders-into-a-bar-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75519","title":{"rendered":"Baby fur seal wanders into a bar in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surprise visitor waddled around the pub during what\u2019s known as \u2018silly season\u2019 where seals pop up in unexpected places<\/p>\n<p>On a wet, lazy Sunday evening a baby fur seal waddled into a craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of New Zealand\u2019s South Island. Accustomed to seeing animals in the pet-friendly bar, co-owner Bella Evans initially assumed the visitor was a dog before she took a closer look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone was in shock,\u201d Evans said. \u201cOh my gosh. What do we do? What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/dec\/05\/baby-fur-seal-wanders-into-bar-in-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surprise visitor waddled around the pub during what\u2019s known as \u2018silly season\u2019 where seals pop up in unexpected placesOn a wet, lazy Sunday evening a baby fur seal waddled into a craft beer bar in Richmond, at the top of New Zealand\u2019s South Island. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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-75519","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\/75519","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75519\/revisions\/75520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}