{"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":{"0":"post-241366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-airlifted","9":"tag-as","10":"tag-assault","11":"tag-been","12":"tag-closed","13":"tag-condition","14":"tag-critical","15":"tag-critically","16":"tag-following","17":"tag-further","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-hospital","20":"tag-ihaia","21":"tag-in","22":"tag-injured","23":"tag-into","24":"tag-investigate","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-notice","27":"tag-person","28":"tag-police","29":"tag-punake","30":"tag-rd","31":"tag-road","32":"tag-serious","33":"tag-taranaki","34":"tag-top-news","35":"tag-top-stories","36":"tag-topnews","37":"tag-topstories","38":"tag-until","39":"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}]}}