{"id":315494,"date":"2026-03-06T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315494\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:57:07","slug":"wellington-scoop-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/315494\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellington.Scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Eugene Doyle<br \/>The Moa Point sewerage outfall pipe is kind of the colon of the city.  200,000 people share this colon and yet it appears never to have had a thorough colonoscopy.  A 300-metre inspection, as done by the water company, is just \u2013 so to speak \u2013 a semi-colon inspection. Not good enough \u2013 as we all know now following the catastrophic failure of either the pipe or systems that connect to it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/wellington.scoop.co.nz\/?p=177903#more-177903\" class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Eugene DoyleThe Moa Point sewerage outfall pipe is kind of the colon of the city. 200,000 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-315494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315494","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=315494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}