{"id":387457,"date":"2026-04-19T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T16:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T16:16:08","slug":"man-wants-to-reunite-goldfish-he-rescued-in-lower-hutt-floods-with-its-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387457\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wants to reunite goldfish he rescued in Lower Hutt floods with its owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThankfully, I already had the right equipment ready, which made it possible to act quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Rempala posted about the missing pet on his local community page but no one has come to collect the fish yet. <\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Tim Rempala feeding the goldfish he rescued, which he believes is a female fish.\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Tim Rempala feeding the goldfish he rescued, which he believes is a female fish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">He knew of a few ponds in his area and assumed one of them must have overflowed from the rain, washing away the fish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">He said the \u201cpoor thing\u201d might have floated away for a considerable distance because both sides of its body were de-scaled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">The fish was \u201cbashed-up\u201d when Rempala found it but it has since been administered medication and is on the road to recovery, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"npuzLaxKHxgCDhG\" style=\"display:none\">Janhavi Gosavi is a Wellington-based journalist for the New Zealand Herald who covers news in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThankfully, I already had the right equipment ready, which made it possible to act quickly.\u201d Rempala posted about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14646,2837,8321,16776,19876,3092,189741,109,692,49947,78,302,2513,5158,3244,111,43,139,69,2738,18560,9874,9636,61,14638,52,1316,102],"class_list":["post-387457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-checking","tag-during","tag-fish","tag-flash","tag-flooding","tag-floods","tag-goldfish","tag-ground","tag-he","tag-hutt","tag-in","tag-its","tag-lower","tag-man","tag-neighbours","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-owner","tag-rescued","tag-reunite","tag-spotted","tag-to","tag-wants","tag-wellington","tag-when","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387457","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=387457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}