{"id":76898,"date":"2026-04-01T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/01\/molly-border-collie-rescued-new-zealand"},"modified":"2026-04-01T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:23:43","slug":"molly-the-border-collie-rescued-after-a-week-waiting-for-injured-owner-in-new-zealands-remote-backcountry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76898","title":{"rendered":"Molly the border collie rescued after a week waiting for injured owner in New Zealand\u2019s remote backcountry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rescue mission involving volunteer helicopter crew and public donations ended in joy after Molly was located and brought home <\/p>\n<p>A spot of furry black and white appears among the jagged rocks of New Zealand\u2019s alpine backcountry. It is Molly the border collie, sitting near the foot of a waterfall where she had been separated from her owner one week earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Molly was rescued on Tuesday after an avalanche of donations from the public funded a volunteer team made up of former helicopter pilots and crew to mount a search in the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/01\/molly-border-collie-rescued-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rescue mission involving volunteer helicopter crew and public donations ended in joy after Molly was located and brought home A spot of furry black and white appears among the jagged rocks of New Zealand\u2019s alpine backcountry. It is Molly the border c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4898,"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":[265,41,868,56,284,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-dogs","category-new-zealand","category-pets","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\/76898","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\/4898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76898\/revisions\/76899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}