{"id":241366,"date":"2026-01-19T20:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T20:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T20:43:08","slug":"person-critically-injured-in-opunake-assault-ihaia-rd-closed-as-police-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/241366\/","title":{"rendered":"Person critically injured in \u014cpunake assault, Ihaia Rd closed as police investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">With Ihaia Rd closed \u201cfor several hours\u201d while police investigate, the public has been asked to avoid the area this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cCordons are in place and police are working to determine the circumstances of the assault\u201a\u201d a police spokesperson said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Ihaia Rd closed \u201cfor several hours\u201d while police investigate, the public has been asked to avoid the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11727,806,17704,1558,5201,1239,11728,12939,5504,14724,42,2241,141933,78,10933,296,676,43,11552,4056,675,141932,2642,1314,1238,16715,40,38,41,39,698,102],"class_list":["post-241366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-airlifted","tag-as","tag-assault","tag-been","tag-closed","tag-condition","tag-critical","tag-critically","tag-following","tag-further","tag-headlines","tag-hospital","tag-ihaia","tag-in","tag-injured","tag-into","tag-investigate","tag-news","tag-notice","tag-person","tag-police","tag-punake","tag-rd","tag-road","tag-serious","tag-taranaki","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-until","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241366","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=241366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}