{"id":240704,"date":"2026-01-19T08:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T08:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:41:23","slug":"sunlive-man-dies-at-pilot-bay-mount-maunganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/240704\/","title":{"rendered":"SunLive &#8211; Man dies at Pilot Bay, Mount Maunganui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has died after being pulled from the water at Pilot Bay Beach, Mount Maunganui, on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said officers attended the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police were notified of the incident, where a man had been pulled from the water unconscious, about 8.20am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, the man was pronounced deceased at the scene,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The death has been referred to the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has died after being pulled from the water at Pilot Bay Beach, Mount Maunganui, on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-240704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240704","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=240704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}