{"id":305873,"date":"2026-02-28T03:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305873\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:24:09","slug":"punch-the-monkey-may-have-been-abandoned-by-his-peers-but-he-found-a-place-in-our-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/305873\/","title":{"rendered":"Punch the monkey may have been abandoned by his peers, but he found a place in our hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you spent the week checking social media for updates on how Punch the macaque monkey is doing? Well, if so, you aren\u2019t alone.<\/p>\n<p>Here &amp; Now\u2019s Peter O\u2019Dowd talks with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/staff\/85326264007\/michelle-del-rey-\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Michelle Del Rey<\/a>, a trending news reporter at USA Today, about how and why Punch has captured our hearts and attention.<\/p>\n<p>\nThis article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2026\/02\/27\/punch-the-monkey\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2026 WBUR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you spent the week checking social media for updates on how Punch the macaque monkey is doing?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-305873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305873","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=305873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}