{"id":229696,"date":"2026-01-12T11:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229696\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:28:09","slug":"sea-snake-seen-at-gisbornes-wainui-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/229696\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea snake seen at Gisborne\u2019s Wainui Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIf you are bitten by a venomous sea snake\/krait, seek medical attention immediately. The National Poisons Centre also offers a 24\/7 service on 0800 POISON.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">The creatures are non-resident in New Zealand waters and arrive on ocean currents more by accident than design, as the waters here are too cold for them to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">It is illegal to kill or harass a sea snake or to possess one, or part of one, without Wildlife Act authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf you are bitten by a venomous sea snake\/krait, seek medical attention immediately. The National Poisons Centre also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1975,7972,682,1389,26034,89786,111,139,69,19764,1560,147,3008,7812,15236,9636,9537,136796,406],"class_list":["post-229696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-at","tag-beach","tag-being","tag-conservation","tag-department","tag-gisbornes","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-received","tag-report","tag-science","tag-sea","tag-seen","tag-snake","tag-spotted","tag-venomous","tag-wainui","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}