{"id":341635,"date":"2026-03-22T03:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/341635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:24:15","slug":"nz-woman-drowns-while-snorkelling-in-rarotonga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/341635\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ woman drowns while snorkelling in Rarotonga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand woman has drowned while on holiday in Rarotonga.<\/p>\n<p>In a social media post on Saturday, the Cook Islands Police said the 66-year-old tourist was pulled unresponsive from the lagoon at Vaimaanga late on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>They said she had been snorkelling with friends.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said they were aware of reports of the death but could not comment due to privacy reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Zealand woman has drowned while on holiday in Rarotonga. In a social media post on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-341635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341635","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=341635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}